Russia on Sunday was preparing to raise the sunken riverboat from the bottom of the Volga River in an operation involving over 800 people, a week after it sank in a storm killing at least 114.

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Russian rescuers said on Monday the bodies of 40 children may be trapped in the playroom of a pleasure boat that went down with up to 130 people on board in a heavy Volga River storm.

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Russian divers scoured the murky Volga River on Monday as hopes dwindled of finding more than 100 people -- many of them children -- whose Soviet-era cruise ship went down in a heavy storm.

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