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Russia says Kursk sinking caused by torpedo leak
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Russia says Kursk sinking caused by torpedo leak
DISASTER: Fluid exploded and 118 submariners died in Barents Sea
wreck.
MOSCOW -- The Russian government said Monday that leaky torpedo
fuel caused the explosions that destroyed the Kursk nuclear
submarine, wrapping up nearly two years of sensitive investigation
into one of the country's worst post-Soviet disasters.
The announcement that the vessel was destroyed by an internal
malfunction -- and not a foreign submarine as ha...
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; ... Two years to the day since a torpedo explosion sent the submarine Kursk to the bottom of the Barents ... last journey, and in Moscow, Kursk and St. Petersburg. Despite a government commission ruling that Russia's worst peacetime submarine disaster ... that the true reasons for the sinking have ...
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