Over 100 missing as Russian boat Bulgaria sinks on Volga

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14099637
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Many missing as Russian boat Bulgaria sinks on Volga
Republic of Tatarstan Emergencies Ministry handout photo showing rescuers on the Volga River, about 80km south of Kazan, 10 July 2011 Rescuers are scouring the area where the boat sank several kilometres from the Volga's shoreline

More than 100 people are missing after a tourist boat sank on the Volga River in Russia, officials say.

They say one person was confirmed dead and dozens were rescued after the boat sank in the republic of Tatarstan, about 750km (450 miles) east of Moscow.

More than 180 passengers and crew were believed to be on the Bulgaria, which was sailing from the town of Bulgar to the regional capital, Kazan.

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. Looks pretty land-locked. Was this vessel in a lake or something?

Map has me confuzzled.

[Swede]

3. Here is a bigger map.

I wondered too,but the Volga river looks miles wide in some areas.

http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main_e.pl?Region=tatarstan

[malaise]

4. The Volga is a huge river

http://web.bryant.edu/~langlois/ecology/funpics.html

[Posteritatis]

5. The Volga's the largest river in Europe; it's a couple miles wide at points. (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. omg.