MOSCOW — A half-century-old tourist boat with 188 people on board listed and sank quickly in one of the world’s largest reservoirs amid wind and rain Sunday, authorities and survivors said, and dozens of children were believed to be among the 101 people missing. Two bodies were recovered.
About 30 children gathered in a cockpit in the double- decker boat moments before it sank into the reservoir on the Volga River, a survivor told the Interfax news agency. Russia’s Vesti 24 television quoted another survivor as saying that the boat “tilted to the right and sank within minutes.” Crew members had time to open two lifeboats and could release only one from the ship, survivors told the Itar Tass news agency.
Emergency teams from neighboring regions rushed to the site of the tragedy, 450 miles east of Moscow.
