The Kremlin on Wednesday refused to reveal the full story of a fire that killed 14 officers on what was reportedly a nuclear-powered mini-submarine, saying the details of the tragedy were a 'state secret'
Moscow - The Kremlin on Wednesday refused to reveal the full story of a fire that killed 14 officers on what was reportedly a nuclear-powered mini-submarine, saying the details of the tragedy were a"state secret."
The seamen died on Monday due to smoke inhalation, the defence ministry said, following the fire on a submersible in the Barents Sea in Russia's territorial waters, but the accident was only made public on Tuesday. The tragedy has echoes of the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, also in the Barents Sea, that claimed 118 lives and shook the first year of Vladimir Putin's presidency.
Putin did not go to a military base in the northern city of Severomorsk where the vessel is now, dispatching Shoigu instead.Igor Kurdin, a former commander of a nuclear submarine, said authorities have managed to extract only four bodies from the vessel which was full of water. Its hull is reportedly built of titanium orbs, earning it the nickname"Losharik" --- a winsome toy horse made of juggling balls in a Soviet-era cartoon.The presence of many senior ranking officers on board could suggest the submarine was not on an ordinary assignment, experts said.
"They fought for the ship to survive until the end," he said, adding that the seamen would be posthumously given state awards.Churches in the Arctic city of Murmansk and in Kronstadt, a naval base in the Gulf of Finland, will hold services in their memory.
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