CHITA, April 30. /ITAR-TASS/. Two servicemen and eight local residents have been killed as a result of ammunition explosions and an ensuing fire in Karymskoye District of Zabaikalsky Krai (Trans-Baikal Territory). Fyodor Kurguzkin, Head of Regional Department for civil defense and fire prevention said this on Wednesday. He added that among the victims was the commander of a military unit from Bolshaya Tura village, where the tragedy occurred. There are also four women among the victims.
A truck with ten casualties was found at dawn on the technical territory of an arsenal at a military unit in Russian Siberia’s Trans-Baikal Territory. According to preliminary reports, the truck with people happened to be in the epicenter of a sudden ammunition blast, chief press officer of the Russian Defense Ministry Maj. Gen Igor Konashenkov told ITAR-TASS on Wednesday.