MOSCOW: Sixteen people, including the head of Apatit, a fertiliser supplier, were missing and two survived with injuries after an Mi-8 helicopter crashed into a lake in Russia’s northwest Murmansk region, the Emergencies Ministry said.
The state-owned RIA Novosti news agency said regional government officials and businessmen were aboard the helicopter and that they were on a fishing trip. A spokesman for PhosAgro said that Alexei Grigoryev, the head of its Apatit subsidiary, was on board the helicopter. He declined to elaborate. reuters
