A serviceman died and an officer was missing after Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, caught fire in an Arctic shipyard, the Northern Fleet's press service says.
Officials
said at least 10 people were hospitalized with injuries sustained during a fire
that broke out on December 12 while the vessel was undergoing repairs in a
shipyard in the northwestern region of Murmansk.
One of
the injured was said to be in serious condition.
The
president of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation, Aleksei Rakhmanov, said
that the fire occurred during welding works.
Investigators
said they had launched a probe into possible construction violations.
The
Admiral Kuznetsov sustained damage during repair work last year when the
floating dock holding it sank and a crane crashed onto its deck.
The
flagship of the Russian Navy became fully operational in 1995.
***With
reporting by TASS, Interfax, RenTV, Interfax, Reuters, and AFP
Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/fire-reported-on-docked
-admiral-kuznetsov-russia-s-only- aircraft-carrier/30321579.html
