Submitted By: andri
| 3 months ago
MOSCOW — Chechen fighters said in a letter posted on a rebel website that they had used an anti-tank grenade to cause a disaster at a massive dam in Siberia this week presumed to have killed over 70 people. "Glory to Allah, on August 17 ...
News Source: 7days
| 3 months ago
Investigators have fully ruled out the possibility that a terrorist attack was behind last week’s Siberian power station disaster that killed at least 69, prosecutors said. “It has been established that the accident was of a tech-nical nature,”...
News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 3 months ago
Searchers on Sunday combed wreckage at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant for six workers missing since an explosion a week ago. Three more bodies were found, raising the death toll to at least 69 people. The Aug. 17 blast at the Sayano-...
News Source: The Boston Globe
| 3 months ago
This photo taken Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, shows a general view of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia.Russian authorities were reportedly warned in 1998 that Siberia's massive Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant...
News Source: Press TV
| 3 months ago
A report published by the business daily Kommersant on Saturday said that the Emergency Situations Ministry had warned more than a decade ago that the dam at the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant in Siberia had fallen into dangerous neglect. Meanwhile, more...
News Source: Inquirer.net
| 3 months ago
The confirmed death toll from the disaster at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant rose to 64 on Saturday, with 11 people still listed as missing, a spokesman for the search and rescue team said. "We have discovered 64 bodies," with 11 people still...