90 volunteers join rescuers looking for avalanche-hit students in Siberia

Over 90 volunteers have joined rescuers searching for the avalanche-hit schoolchildren on the Ak-Batyg Mount in Russia’s remote region of Tyva in south-central Siberia.

A plane and a helicopter have been dispatched to the site where a group of six children have been buried under a thick layer of snow. A situation room has been set up to coordinate rescue effort.

The students were caught in an avalanche as say went skiing in the area on Sunday. One of them managed to get away and call for help. All children go to a school in a village several kilometers from the mountains, NTV.ru reports.