Eight people have been proclaimed dead and one is presumed to have drowned when a pleasure ship collided with a cargo barge. The accident occurred today in the Moscow River. There were a total of sixteen people onboard when the ship went down and only seven were rescued.

The ship, Lastochka, was registered to Russia. Its captain and owner, Gennady Zinger, had previously be fined (three times in the past year) for exceeding the passenger limitation aboard the vessel. According to Wireupdate, the vessel had several safety issues, including a broken engine and extreme overloading.Photo Credit: SeaNews