 Eight people are feared dead after a helicopter carrying 16 people, most of them tourists, crashed into a lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's far east. Staff at a nature reserve described arriving at the site in two speedboats minutes after the crash to find eight survivors who had swam up from a depth of eight or nine meters. They said two of the survivors were badly hurt and the water temperature was no more than 56 degrees Celsius so they would not have survived long. The passengers were able to escape the sinking helicopter through luggage doors that opened at the rear the regional governor said on state television.