MURMANSK, October 5. /TASS/. A young woman who survived the Favorit shipwreck in the Kandalaksha Bay in the White Sea has died of hypothermia on the way to hospital, a source in the local emergencies service told TASS on Tuesday.
"The girl who survived the shipwreck has died of hypothermia on the way to hospital," the source said.
This information was confirmed by a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee’s Western transport investigation department. "Three persons are missing, one man is alive and a woman died in the ambulance," the spokesman told TASS.
According to earlier reports, rescuers were sent to the scene but the operation is complicated by the stormy weather with high waves and wind gusts of up to 16 m/s.
The privately-owned Favorit sent a distress signal from an area east of the Kandalaksha Bay in the White Sea on Tuesday afternoon. According to Russia’s Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport, one of the ship’s passengers managed to contact emergencies services. The ship partially sank during the storm. People used a rescue raft, which was brought to the shore by tidal waves. However, when rescuers reached the site, there was no one on the raft.
An investigation is underway.