(Reuters) – Greater than 60 individuals had been battling heavy winds and rains on Sunday trying to find a Russian helicopter that went lacking the day earlier than with 22 aboard within the far japanese peninsula of Kamchatka, the emergencies ministry stated.
Seven teams of emergency rescuers, rangers and volunteers had been dispatched to attempt to find the Mi-8T helicopter that took off from a base close to the Vachkazhets volcano, the ministry stated on the Telegram messaging app.
The Kamchatka Peninsula, some 7,100 kms (4,400 miles) east of Moscow, has been hit by a cyclone over the weekend, with rain anticipated to ease barely solely in direction of the tip of Sunday, the ministry and the area’s meteorology companies stated on Telegram.
“The search has not yielded any results so far,” Russia’s RIA state information company reported, citing Sergei Lebedev, the emergency minister for the Kamchatka area.
“The road is extremely difficult. It is possible to move by foot only.”
He added that the slopes of the mountain vary within the search space are coated with dwarf pine and timber, making it inconceivable to make use of gear.
