Raging flames engulf vessel in ten minutes, but 122 passengers escape safely in life rafts after 'pandemonium'.
As one area continues to fight blaze, communities in tragedy-hit Khakassia show that human spirit and togetherness can prevail.
Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.
Premier Dmitry Medvedev warned it will take two to three weeks to extinguish the fires raging across Siberia.
One child sends chilling video message home from inferno: ‘Mum, we’ve got a problem here.’
Desperate rescue efforts failed to pull the men to safety after the earlier rescue of eight subcontractors.
Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.
Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires.
The runaway bus ignited in flames 'in a scene out of Hollywood'.
Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.