Säämäjärvi, ryska Karelen: Elva barn drunknade 2016-06-18

Elva barn har drunknat i sjön Säämäjärvi i ryska Karelen, två barn saknas fortfarande, rapporterar nyhetsbyrån Tass.
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En grupp på 49 barn gav sig ut på en paddlingsfärd i lördags och överraskades under natten av en storm. De hade fyra vuxna ledare med sig.

Gruppen färdades i två båtar och en flotte, den ena båten kantrade medan den andra båten och flotten klarade sig tillbaka till land.

A local resident told RT that the boat trip was "a bad idea" because of the weather conditions in the region.

"The wind was mad yesterday. It's a crime to let children go on a voyage on the lake," the woman said, adding that the camp was not a place she would recommend people to send their children to: instructors at the camp were regularly drunk, and not long ago a security officer was killed on the camp's premises.

One of the survivors, a girl aged 12, raised the alarm after reaching a local village on Sunday, a police source told Russian tabloid Life News (in Russian).

Yulia is quoted as saying the group were using two boats and a raft when the storm began, and the craft were scattered across the lake.

Washed ashore, she only recovered consciousness on Sunday, after which she walked along the shore to the village of Kudama.

Along the way, she met a boy survivor who was covered in blood and could not move.

After taking note of the spot where she had found him, she reached the village, where a local resident phoned emergency services.

The children’s Ombudsman of Russia Pavel Astakhov commented on your question “how was your swim?”, he asked the two girls, survivors of the storm on the Syamozero in Karelia, which killed 13 children.

After the message about the conversation disseminated by the media, the officials, and so often becoming the object of sarcasm, once again barrage of criticism. Some users remark seemed at least strange and inappropriate.

In turn Astakhov blamed journalists: they, say, ripped his words out of context. In addition, he called your question “psychological trick”.