A lawyer dragged to her death after jumping through a Russian ice hole into a frozen river

A lawyer who was swept to her death after she jumped through a Russian ice hole in a frozen river to mark Orthodox Epiphany has been pictured for the first time. Mother-of-two Anna Uskova, 40, was seen in a deeply distressing video plunging feet-first into the Oredezh River near Vyra, a village south of St Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday, before vanishing. Her two young children screamed as she was pulled away by a powerful current.
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