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Several killed in Russia after an explosion at a military arsenal

At the moment, two soldiers have died, team members tried to fire the arsenal that the spread of fire issue, he told Russian news agencies portfolio spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov. He said seven other staff personnel requested medical arsenal, three of whom were hospitalized.

NEWS Disappeared. Meanwhile, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region admitted he is becoming less likely to be alive 35 people who went missing after bomb attacks and military warehouse fire.

In four hours of fire fighting we failed to find the 35 people who had disappeared. The chances of being alive are slim, said the governor, Sergei Morozov, a Russian news agencies.

Morozov had reported previously that when the explosions began in the workshops of the military arsenal were about 40 people, of which 35 were considered missing. Other sources said that the workshop should be about 30 people, mostly civilian specialists.

While, Morozov reiterated that the authorities still have no data on fatalities and that the centers City medical assistance only requested twenty people, of which eleven were hospitalized.

Two of these eleven people are in critical condition, while the rest have state of shock and cuts to because of broken glass in their homes, he said. Right now there are no people with shrapnel wounds and severe trauma, the official said.

A spokesman for the Central Hospital of Ulyanovsk said on his part to the RIA-Novosti agency that only in center that six people had been admitted in a state of moderate injuries, two of which have already been operated.

Authorities had evacuated about three thousand people in the area adjoining the arsenal, located in an eastern suburb of the city to prevent them from being hit by shrapnel from the ammunition, which exploded from the fire.

The governor and the Russian Defense Ministry indicated that probably the first shots were produced during the destruction of obsolete munitions in the workshops of the arsenal.

The Defense Ministry denied rumors about the possible presence of chemical weapons in the arsenal, belonging to the Navy Russian War, saying only that it welcomed conventional munitions.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered the ministries of Defense and Emergencies do everything necessary to liquidate the consequences of fire in the arsenal in Ulyanovsk, and moved to where the Navy commander, Admiral Vladimir Visotski