Moment bus plunges into the world’s deepest lake killing seven tourists

The tragic moment the van carrying eight Chinese tourists and a driver sinks through Lake Baikal (Picture: east2west news)

More than half a dozen tourists have been killed after a bus fell into the world’s deepest lake.

Divers have recovered the bodies of seven Chinese citizens and a bus driver after the tourist vehicle plunged after ice broke on a frozen section of Lake Baikal in Siberia.

Igor Kobzev, the governor of Irkutsk region, said that one tourist had managed to escape the wreckage.