According to the Russian Emegencies Ministry, the bodies of at least eleven people were found and eleven more tourists have been saved.

A tourist group of 49 people, consisting mostly of children, has been caught in a strong lake storm in Karelia, northwest Russia, according to the authorities. Preliminary reports state that the group consisted mostly of 12 and 15-year-old teenagers, all of them from Moscow, according to the Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

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