Russia removed U.S. diplomats from train near secret test site accident: Interfax
Reuters
Published Oct 16, 2019 01:31PM ET
Russia removed U.S. diplomats from train near secret test site accident: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia removed three U.S. diplomats from a train near the site of a mysterious military testing accident on Monday because they did not have special permits to be in the area, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Russia's state nuclear agency, Rosatom, has acknowledged that five of its nuclear workers were killed in an Aug. 8 explosion during a rocket engine test near the White Sea in far northern Russia.
Interfax cited a source as saying that the U.S. diplomats had been let go, but are regarded to have broken Russian law.
"The U.S. diplomats were on an official business trip and had properly notified the Defence Ministry about their trip," Interfax quoted the spokeswoman of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Rebecca Ross, as saying.
Reuters could not immediately reach the U.S. embassy for comment.
The Severodvinsk region came into the spotlight in August amid contradictory reports about the consequences of the explosion.
The Defence Ministry initially said background radiation remained normal after the incident, but Russia's state weather agency said radiation levels in the nearby city of Severodvinsk had risen by up to 16 times.
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