14/07/2011 13:07
Bulgaria ship wreck: 102 dead bodies identified
As many as 102 out of 105 dead bodies retrieved from the sunken cruise ship Bulgaria have been identified, ITAR-TASS reported.
Twenty four persons, including at least six children, are still missing.
Rescue operations were in progress all through the night. As of now, a total of 1,144 men and 188 units of hardware are involved.
Bulgaria, which was on a Bolgary-Kazan river voyage, sank in the Kuibyshev water reservoir in conditions of stormy weather on July 10. Built in 1955, the ship listed to the starboard and sank within minutes. Its official capacity was 140 people, but reportedly it was carrying 208 people with some of the passengers having boarded unregistered. Seventy nine passengers were rescued.