( CNN ) -- The bodies of 11 more people have been recovered after the weekend collapse of a Russian oil rig in freezing north Pacific waters , a Russian news agency reported Monday . That brings the total number of dead from the Sunday disaster to 16 , according to the state news agency RIA-Novosti . There were 67 people aboard the offshore drilling rig when it capsized during a storm in the Sea of Okhotsk , which lies between the Kamchatka peninsula and the Russian mainland , north of Japan . The rig was being towed from Kamchatka at the time , RIA-Novosti reported . Fourteen people have been rescued and 37 others remain missing , the news agency said . The director of the company that owns the rig , Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka , promised at least 3 million rubles ( $ 93,640 ) in compensation to each crewmember 's family . The rig was carrying out work under a contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom , the news agency said . It was drilling a well about 3,500 meters ( 11,480 feet ) deep , RIA-Novosti said . Taimuraz Kasayev , a spokesman for the regional emergencies service , told RIA-Novosti on Sunday the accident poses no environmental danger because the rig 's fuel stocks were hermetically sealed and would not spill . The television channel Russia Today reported that the rig was being towed into position when pumps failed , causing it to take on water and sink .
NEW : The bodies bring the death toll to 16 . A man is carried away from a building after it was hit by an explosion in Sanaa, Yemen on January 26, 2015. It happened in the Sea of Okhotsk in the north Pacific .