“A procedural check is being carried out according to a media report that on August 9 in the Altai Territory, on a section of the Ob River near the city of Barnaul, a private ship with 50 passengers on board lost control and rushed to the stones,” the message says.
According to the agency, the crash was prevented thanks to the actions of the crew of another ship, which was nearby.
Currently, all the circumstances of the incident are being established.
According to the Altai Pravda newspaper, the incident occurred on August 9 near a gardening pier on a site where the depth reaches 17 meters.
Earlier, the Volga Transport Prosecutor’s Office began a check on the fact of fire on the three-deck motor ship Svyataya Rus in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.