Rescuers retrieve 14th body after Kolskaya oil rig sinking
KHABAROVSK. Dec 22 (Interfax) - Rescuers have recovered the body of the 14th victim killed when the Kolskaya oil drilling rig capsized and sank in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East last week.
"The corpse was lifted by the towboat Atlas, bringing the number of bodies retrieved from the Sea of Okhotsk to 14," a spokesman for the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's Far East Regional Center told Interfax.
A total of three bodies were recovered on Thursday. The bodies of 11 other victims of the accident were retrieved earlier.
The Kolskaya oil rig sank in rough waters as it was being towed from Kamchatka's western coast to Sakhalin on December 18. More than half of the 67 people onboard the rig were residents of Murmansk. Fourteen of them were rescued and delivered to Sakhalin. Four of them have already been discharged from hospitals. Rescuers spotted the bodies of 14 more people, but they could not recover them all at once.