 Moving outside Africa now, a Taurus helicopter with 16 people on board has crashed into a lake in Russia's Far East. There were eight known survivors, 13 tourists including a child and three crew were on board when the MI-8 crashed and sank in the Kuryo Lake on the Kamchatka peninsula. Emergency's Ministry rescuers and divers had been sent to the area to search for those still unaccounted for. According to preliminary information, the aircraft was en route from the village of Nikolaevka to the Kuryo Lake and the Khodutka volcano when it crashed. It was carrying tourists from Moscow and St. Petersburg.