Two teenagers rescued from an island on a river in the Miory district
March 29, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Two teenagers were rescued from an island on the Western Dvina River in the Mior district, the press secretary of the Vitebsk Regional Emergency Situations Department, Marina Fando, told a BELTA correspondent.
The emergency occurred near the town of Disna. A 16-year-old young man decided to admire the ice drift on the Western Dvina with his 17-year-old girlfriend in the evening. An island on the river was chosen as the observation point. The guy and the girl were able to get to it, but they did not dare to get out on their own, realizing the danger of their situation.
The young people were assisted in their predicament by rescuers who delivered them to the shore by boat.-0-