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MOSCOW - RUSSIAN helicopters scrambled on Sunday to pluck hundreds of fishermen from a drifting ice floe in the Sea of Okhotsk, news agencies reported.
Helicopters and boats worked in relays to evacuate more than 450 people, while another 300 were helped by the emergency services to escape across a makeshift bridge, ITAR-TASS and Interfax reported.
An Mi-8 helicopter from by the border guards 'is now making a reconnaissance flight to confirm that there are no more people on the ice,' an emergency situations ministry official for the far eastern Sakhalin region told Interfax.
The anglers, some accompanied by children and wives, had been fishing through ice holes when the floe detached from Russia's Pacific coast.
Similar rescue dramas around Russia are something of an annual ritual in spring when local enthusiasts target migrating fish and the winter ice pack is already starting to break up. -- AFP
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