One person out of three survived in a boat that disappeared in the Khabarovsk Territory in early August, the vessel was found in the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk near the village of Ust-Khairyuzovo, Kamchatka Territory, the press service of the Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor’s Office reports.
According to preliminary information, on August 9, two men and a 15-year-old teenager, who is the son of one of them, on a catamaran-type boat “Baykat 470” moved along the route, after a while the connection with them was lost, the location remained unknown.
The Eastern Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia has initiated a criminal case on the fact of the unknown loss of a small vessel with people under part 3 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic safety rules and operation of water transport, which inadvertently resulted in the death of two or more persons).
“On the fourteenth of October, the vessel was found in the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk near the village of Ust-Khairyuzovo, Kamchatka Territory. Two people died, one survived, and he is receiving medical assistance. The Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor’s Office is monitoring the progress of the investigation of the criminal case and continues to establish the circumstances of the incident with a small vessel traveling from Cape Perovsky of the Nikolaev district of the Khabarovsk Territory towards the Okhinsky district of the Sakhalin Region,”the report says.