RESCUERS SEARCHING MORE THAN 60 PEOPLE IN GULF OF FINLAND








ST.PETERSBURG, MARCH 6, 2001 /RIA NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT SVETLANA CHIKIROVA/ -- Rescue teams are searching for 65 fishermen drifting on ice-floes in the Gulf of Finland, Leningrad region, North-West.


	According to Tuesday's report of the press center of the Emergency Situations and Civil Defence Main Department, the rescuers first received the information about a drifting ice block with 16 fishermen on in the area of the Lebyazhye settlement. Then, another ice-floe was reported carrying approximately 50 people.


	The Kapitan Plakhin ice-breaker and a helicopter are involved in the salvation. Unfortunately, the people have not been found by the moment.


	The salvage operation is going on.