The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, wrote on his Twitter account that 10 children from Moscow had died, according to preliminary information. The boats were capsized in stormy weather in the Republic of Karelia. A police officer said that two of the three boats capsized in Syamozero lake because of bad weather. Fourteen people, mostly children, have died after boats capsized in stormy weather during an outing on a lake in the Republic of Karelia in north-west Russia, the local Emergencies Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. There were 51 people, including four adults, on the outing.

Source: dna June 19, 2016 16:30 UTC