FIRE BROKE OUT TODAY (SUNDAY) AT THE RUSSIAN MILITARY post in Tambov where the military’s secret documents are stored. The fire began around 10 am Moscow time and heavily involved the documents building.
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RIA NOVOSTI reported: ”An alarm call about a fire at the headquarters of a military unit of the Russian Defense Ministry was received this morning. As a result of the fire, five people died and seven others received injuries of various gravity,” the emergencies department said. All the persons who died or were injured in the fire were soldiers and officers of the Russian Defense Ministry’s main intelligence department, with which the military unit was affiliated.
“The fire seriously affected the secret unit where documents of special government importance were kept,” the source said, adding that the Russian defense minister ordered his first deputy, Col.-Gen. Alexander Kolmakov, to fly to the site. “Damage is assessed as very serious,” the source said.
The soldiers that died and were injured were casualties of trying to extinguish the fire before the 17 fire companies arrived on the scene and put it out.
Itar-Tass is reporting that the military unit of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has already opened a criminal investigation.
