Hundreds try to swim, fail
(NEWSER) - With temperatures in Moscow flirting with a 98.6F record, a staggering number of Russians, most of them drunk, are drowning in their attempts to cool off in the city’s lakes and ponds. Just yesterday, 49 people in the country drowned, including two children, a government official tells Reuters . “Russia’s Emergencies Ministry is very worried,” the official said. “The majority of those drowned were drunk. The children died because adults simply did not look after them.” More»
