Overview
- Rescuers pulled the sunken car ashore in Yakutsk, where a child's body was found inside, officials said.
- Authorities had earlier recovered the body of a 60-year-old man who managed to swim out but could not be saved.
- Five people were hospitalized with frostbite, and four of them are in intensive care, according to the republic's health ministry.
- The recovery operation was carried out jointly by the Yakutia Regional Rescue Service and Russia's Emergencies Ministry (MChS).
- The regional prosecutor's office launched a probe into the circumstances of the incident following the recovery.