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Ten teens, four adults go missing on canoeing trip in Russia — Interior Ministry

"Contact with the group of four adults and ten teenagers was lost on July 13 morning," Nizhny Novgorod region Interior Ministry’s department said

MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Ten teenagers and four adults have gone missing on a canoeing trips in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Region, the local Interior Ministry’s department said on Friday.

"All contact with the group of four adults and ten teenagers was lost on July 13 morning," the department said on its website, adding that the search and rescue operation had been launched.

A month ago a rafting trip of a group of 47 children accompanied by four adults ended tragically as they ran into a gale on Lake Syamozero in Karelia, northwestern Russia. The boats overturned and sank. Fourteen children drowned, 33 others were rescued.