Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), July 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Eighty-eight people were missing while 84 others were rescued from a cruise ship that sank in Russia's Volga river Sunday, officials said. One woman died.


The double-deck cruise ship Bulgaria, en route from the Tatar town of Bolgar to Kazan was carrying 140 passengers and 33 crewmembers, the regional emergencies centre said.

The ship sank at 09.58 GMT near the Syukeyevo village in the Kansko-Ustinovsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The transport ministry has set up a crisis centre to probe the incident.