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Murmansk Investigators Open Case After Woman Is Swept Away During Ice-Floating

The incident occurred during a group session on the Tuloma River near Kola’s Pomorskaya embankment.

Overview

  • Regional emergency officials said a participant was carried away by the current during ice-floating, a practice involving insulated floating hydro-suits.
  • Rescue teams from the Murmansk Arctic Emergency Rescue Center and the regional emergency rescue service were dispatched and are conducting a search.
  • The regional branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Article 238 on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements.
  • Authorities reported the missing woman was born in 1968.
  • Murmansk Oblast is currently seeing temperatures below minus 20 degrees Celsius.