Tourist hovercraft capsizes without warning, leaving passengers fighting to survive

A tourist outing on the frozen edges of Siberia’s Lake Baikal ended in tragedy Tuesday after a hovercraft carrying travelers overturned in frigid waters — leaving five people dead and sparking a large-scale rescue effort, according to Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations and as cited by local media Interfax and Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Emergency officials said the vessel — a Sever-750 airboat designed to travel across both ice and water — capsized just offshore with 18 people aboard. 

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