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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Fire, injuries reported aboard Russian cruiser

Slava class cruiserA fire aboard the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet injured seven sailors before the blaze was brought under control, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday. But officials in Moscow denied service personnel had been harmed in the September 7 incident, saying "there was only a little smoke."

Interfax citing "competent naval sources" reported the fire broke out aboard the missile cruiser Moscow while it was tied up at a military wharf in the Ukrainian port Sevastopol.

Russia leases a section of the Crimean peninsula port from Ukraine as the home base for its Black Sea fleet.

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