| http://www.allnews.ru/english/2001/08/16/storage/
Updated 16.08.2001 at 18:42:41 Thousands of Anti-Aircraft Guns' Shells Disappear from Storage Some 10,000 shells for anti-aircraft guns have disappeared from a military storage site in the Russian Far East following floods, Interfax news agency reported. The floods destroyed the site near the village of Boyec Kuznetsov and dragged out in the river 300 boxes containing shells. Police and emergency situations ministry's officers failed to find the boxes in the river area. The military prosecutor office is investigating the loss. Neither the police, nor officials of the ministry of emergency situation, or the head of the local administration were allowed to enter the storage site itself, the agency said. |
