Bodies recovered from Russian river collision

Divers have recovered six bodies from a Siberian river following the collision of an oil tanker and a barge ferrying trucks and cars.

Emergency officials say five adults and a three-year-old were sleeping in the cabs of two trucks and an automobile being ferried on the barge.

It was going from the port of Osterovo to the city of Lensk on the Lena River when it collided with the oil tanker coming in the opposition direction.

The trucks and the car toppled into the river and sank after the collision.

Divers recovered the bodies of all six victims, according to Valery Kuzin, a spokesman for the regional Emergency Situations Ministry in Irkutsk, where the accident occurred, 2,600 miles east of Moscow.

It's reported the barge was transporting the trucks and cars in violation of safety regulations.