Russia Says Some Crew Survived Fire on Vessel It Won’t Discuss
- Kremlin refuses to say if nuclear-powered submarine involved
- Norway says its monitors show no sign of radioactive emissions
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Russia said some crew members survived a fire that killed 14 sailors on a submersible research vessel, as the Kremlin refused to say whether a nuclear-powered submarine was involved.
The sailors who died in the country’s worst naval incident in more than a decade “behaved like heroes” to save other crew members and the vessel, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday on Russian state TV at the Northern Fleet’s Severomorsk base on the Barents Sea coast. After moving a civilian specialist to safety, they sealed off the affected section and stayed to extinguish the fire, he said.