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Nizhny Novgorod, (Interfax) - Rescuers have found several children's bodies in a room aboard the capsized Bulgaria boat, a spokesman for the Volga region's Emergency Situations Department has told Interfax.

"Children were presumably assembled in a room for some entertainment event," the spokesman said.

The room was discovered soon after divers began examining the boat.

"At present, we do not know exactly how many children there were inside and how many have been retrieved," he said.