Search under way after helicopter plunges into Russian volcanic crater lake

Emergency personnel work near the site where a helicopter carrying tourists crashed at Kurile Lake in the Kronotsky nature reserve on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia (Kamchatka regional government via AP)

A helicopter carrying tourists plunged into a deep volcanic crater lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east, and rescuers were searching in the lake for up to eight people missing, officials said.

At least eight others reportedly survived.