United Morning Post reported: "Seven Chinese tourists died in Lake Baikal, and Russian divers have recovered the bodies. A car carrying eight Chinese tourists sank into Lake Baikal on Friday (February 20) when it was driving on the ice of Lake Baikal, with seven people drowning and one survivor. The incident site has a water depth of 18 meters."
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Foreign Minister Lavrov expressed his condolences to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday regarding the incident of Chinese tourists dying in Lake Baikal.
With the increasingly close Sino-Russian relations and the implementation of visa exemption measures, the number of Chinese tourists traveling to Russia has significantly increased, making Lake Baikal a popular tourist destination.
Comment: Visa exemptions have made traveling to Russia more convenient, but loose management of the ice surface, illegal passenger transport, and ignoring no-go warnings, combined with abnormal weather and unstable ice layers, led to this tragedy. The foreign minister's condolences and rescue efforts cannot save lives, and this also serves as a warning to everyone: outbound travel safety must always come first.
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