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| Two killed in Russian sub fire | |
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| A fire has broken out on board a Russian nuclear submarine, killing two, the Russian defence ministry has said. | |
| An unnamed Northern Fleet spokesman was quoted as saying there was no threat of a radiation leak. | An unnamed Northern Fleet spokesman was quoted as saying there was no threat of a radiation leak. |
| The ship's nuclear reactor was shut down and the vessel was being towed to a submarine base in the Barents Sea. | The ship's nuclear reactor was shut down and the vessel was being towed to a submarine base in the Barents Sea. |
| The Northern Fleet has been dogged by a number of accidents. In 2000, the Kursk submarine sank in the Barents Sea killing all 118 people on board. | The Northern Fleet has been dogged by a number of accidents. In 2000, the Kursk submarine sank in the Barents Sea killing all 118 people on board. |
| Last year the crew of a Russian mini-submarine stranded on the bed of the Pacific had to be rescued by the British navy. | |
| The submarine, the Daniil Moskovsky, was anchored off the Rybachiy peninsula just off the border with Finland, when the fire broke out. | |
| "The electric equipment of the submarine, which was in the Barents Sea, caught fire in the early hours of today," a source in the Russian Defence Ministry said. | |
| "There is no threat of nuclear contamination," Interfax quoted an unnamed Fleet spokesman as saying. | |
| A warrant officer and a sailor were killed, the agency said. |