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Eighteen Russian soldiers killed after barracks collapse in Siberia More than 20 Russian soldiers killed after barracks collapse in Siberia
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Eighteen Russian soldiers have been killed after their military barracks collapsed in Siberia, a Russian defence ministry spokesman said on Monday, adding that five others remained missing. The ceiling of a Russian military barracks has collapsed in Siberia, causing four storeys to crumble and killing 23 men trapped inside.
“Thirty-seven servicemen have been pulled out of the debris, 18 of them have died,” Igor Konashenkov said in remarks broadcast on TV. “The search is ongoing for five soldiers. Nineteen have been hospitalised.” Rescuers searched for hours for victims trapped under the debris of an airborne troops training centre in Omsk after the collapse in the early hours of Monday morning.
Nineteen people were injured. Ten seriously injured victims were sent to Moscow for treatment while the Kremlin offered condolences to the families of the deceased.
The defence ministry would not speculate on the cause of the accident but the footage and video from the scene showed an entire section of the building lying in ruins. Ministry spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said the centre was renovated in 2013 but he insisted that could not have caused the collapse.
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The collapse happened on Sunday evening near the city of Omsk, at a training facility for Russian paratroopers. In footage shown on Russian television, one section of the four-storey building had completely fallen through and soldiers formed a chain to pass bricks and other debris from one to another in order to clear the mountain of rubble.
In footage shown on Russian television, one section of the four-story building had completely fallen through and soldiers formed a chain to pass bricks and other debris from one to another in order to clear the mountain of rubble.
“Half of the heap has been cleared now,” said the acting commander of Russian paratroopers Nikolai Ignatov in remarks to Rossiya 24.