Mum swept to her d**eath after jumping into ice hole cut in river to mark Epiphany.
Anna Uskova, 40, was celebrating Christian Orthodox Epiphany the way many other believers do – by jumping into blessed water to commemorate Jesus’s baptism in the River Jordan.
The Christian Orthodox believe water which is blessed during the annual ceremony has healing powers.
Epiphany fell on Wednesday this year, and Anna did not shy away from partaking – despite the -5°C air temperatures at the time.
A mum d*ied after she jumped into an ice hole cut into a river and was swept away by the current.
Footage shows the lawyer standing on the ice in a black swimsuit and crossing herself before plunging feet-first into a rectangular ice hole.
It quickly became clear that something had gone wrong and Anna’s businessman husband Yuri, 50, jumped in straight after her. She was never found.
In distressing video shared elsewhere, Anna’s two children can be heard crying for their mum as another woman tried to comfort them.
