Salvoes Enough for a Week
Artillery shells of the Pacific Fleet started exploding all of a sudden near Kamchatka’s villages of South Koryaky and North Koryaky Saturday night. Around 8,000 people ran away to escape the shell fragments flying within a radius of ten kilometers. The prosecutors say the firing might have resulted from the intentional destruction of shells, just to cover up their shortage.
The residents of Kamchatka’s villages woke up at 3:10 a.m. October 1, 2005, because of the terrific noise of the explosion – the shells of military supply depots of the Pacific Fleet near North Koryaky and South Koryaky villages were bursting with actually no intervals for sever hours. The booming was clearly heard even in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, i.e. as far as 56 kilometers from the place of explosion. Luckily, no lethal outcome was reported, only a few persons were inured by glass chips of the broken windows.
The rescue/military personnel responded in no time. For residents of the nearby villages, the evacuation began in 10 minutes after the first explosion. At the same time, the officers arranged a security cordon around the area of 15 kilometers. About 8,000 people were evacuated from the nine villages to Elizovo town, though some locals preferred to stay on fears of pillaging.
It is yet unclear how many shells were actually destroyed. By hearsay, the arsenal was enough so that all troops of the North-East could fight for a week.
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