Two fourth-formers drown in the Dnepr in Mahileu

Two fourth-formers have drowned near the highway bridge across the Dnepr in Mahileu. According to witnesses, the children were walking on the ice and it broke.
One of them drowned instantly and the other was dragged under the ice by the flow. The accident occurred on February 23. Divers looked for them until the evening and have resumed the search today. The Dnepr is 70 metres wide and 2.5 meters deep near the banks in that spot.

BelTA