Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel
Heavy blasts are rocking an ammunition depot in Russia’s Samara Region, where over 13 million shells are stored. The police have started evacuation of the nearby communities.
Russia has been plagued with accidents just like this one. Every year thereis at least one incident like this. Last year a soldier didnt put out his cigarette properly at the Donguz depot in the Orenburg region in the southern Ural Mountains. It triggered a series of explosions that destroyed more than 4,000 metric tons of artillery munitions and injured one officer.
More than 50 servicemen were killed and over 300 others were injured at fires and other accidents at military ammunition depots in recent years, said Alexander Kanshin, an expert with the Public Chamber, an advisory body for the Kremlin. The Russian military is currently in the early stages of modernizing its military. -Mort