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| Unmanned Russian rocket crashes in Kazakhstan | Unmanned Russian rocket crashes in Kazakhstan |
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| An unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket has crashed just seconds after its launch from the Russian Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan. | An unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket has crashed just seconds after its launch from the Russian Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan. |
| Dramatic video footage broadcast by Russian TV shows the rocket break up before exploding into a fireball over the Baikonur cosmodrome. | Dramatic video footage broadcast by Russian TV shows the rocket break up before exploding into a fireball over the Baikonur cosmodrome. |
| Russia's Interfax news agency reported that up to 500 tonnes of poisonous rocket fuel may have been released and infected the crash site. | Russia's Interfax news agency reported that up to 500 tonnes of poisonous rocket fuel may have been released and infected the crash site. |
| There were no reported injuries. | There were no reported injuries. |
| The rocket was carrying three satellites for Russia's Glonass (global) navigation satellite system. | |
| It is not yet clear what caused the accident. | |
| It is not the first incident involving a Proton-M rocket, according to the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. | |
| A similar rocket crashed shortly after it was launched six years ago, and in 2010 another rocket failed to put three navigation satellites into orbit. |