A fugitive found alive with the bodies of his brother and nephew in Russia after wandering for two months
A cast away Used to be found alive after spending more than two months Drifting in an inflatable boat in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian Far East. Rescue teams found the bodies of the man along with two of his brother and nephew this Monday.
As reported by the regional prosecutor’s office, “On August 9, 2024, two men and a 15-year-old teenager, the son of one of them, went on a boat catamaran type baccarat 470» From the Khabarovsk Territory, on Sakhalin Island.
Shortly afterward, contact with the boat was lost, for reasons that remained unclear, according to the prosecutor’s office. According to a website that sells these types of boats, the boat is 4.7 meters long and 2.2 meters wide.
On October 14, a fishing boat, codenamed “Angel”, was found in the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk about 1,000 km off a village on the Kamchatka Peninsula. two passengers diedThe third, found alive, was treated by medical personnel, the prosecutor’s office said.
In a video released by prosecutors, a man with a beard and a life jacket is seen wrapped in a blanket in his inflatable boat at night.
According to Russian agency RIA Novosti, the survivor is Mikhail Pichugin and the deceased are his 49-year-old brother Sergei and 15-year-old nephew Ilya.
For his wife, Ekaterina, that Mijail has survived “is a kind of MiracleAccording to what he told the Ria Novosti agency, he was probably saved because of his overweight. “He weighed about 100 kg,” the woman commented, but when he was found, according to Russian television, the man weighed about 50 kg.