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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

15 hospitalized after fire on Russian nuclear submarine

TomskRussian investigators on Tuesday, September 17 said 15 servicemen had been hospitalized after a fire during repairs on a nuclear-powered submarine in the Far East, with the vessel sustaining significant damage.

The Russian Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes in Russia, said it had opened a criminal probe into suspected abuse of authority over the fire on the Tomsk submarine in the Bolshoi Kamen shipyard in the Russian Far East.

"The Tomsk partly lost some of its functional characteristics" as a result of the fire, the investigators said, without giving further details on the nature of the damage.

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