Boat tragedy kills 13 children in storm in RussiaIGOR PODGORNY/TASS via GETTY Children return to the Syamozero Park Hotel in the Pryazhinsky District. Of 47 children and four adult instructors in the boats, 13 children and one adult drowned, Markin said. At least 13 children and their adult instructor have died in a storm while boating on a lake in Russia's northwestern region of Karelia. Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the nation's main state investigative agency, said several boats with children overturned in a storm in Syamozero, 120 kilometres east of the border with Finland. READ MORE: Putin: Olympic ban unfairThe children who went out boating came from Moscow and the capital's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, offered condolences to the victims' families.

Source: Stuff June 19, 2016 15:22 UTC