Russian rescue services recover another body from the crash of a Mi-8 helicopter in Kamchatka

September 2 () –

Russian rescue services on Monday recovered another body of the victims of the Mi-8 helicopter crash in Kamchatka on Saturday, an incident that resulted in no survivors among the 22 people on board.

“In Kamchatka, rescue teams from the Russian Emergencies Ministry have found another body. The search for four people and the black box continues,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel.

Hours earlier, the operational centre for the rescue of the 22 occupants of the Mi-8 helicopter that crashed on Saturday on the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka, in the far east of the country, had already estimated that there were no survivors among the three crew members and 19 passengers.

Shortly afterwards, the Russian Ministry of Emergencies confirmed the discovery of 17 lifeless bodies in the vicinity of the crash. After several hours of searching for the wreckage, made difficult by dense fog, emergency services finally found the destroyed fuselage on a hill at an altitude of about 900 metres, close to the last point of contact between the crew and the authorities before the crash, which is still under investigation.