Shot From Armoured Train Sets Fire to Chechen Railway Station
Posted on: Friday, 19 August 2005, 12:00 CDT
Text of report by Russian news agency Interfax-AVN website
Moscow, 19 August: A fire broke out at the Chervlennaya-Uzlovaya railway station [25 km northeast of Groznyy] in Chechnya as a result of a shot fired from a passing armoured train, a spokesman for Chechen law-enforcement agencies has told Interfax-AVN by telephone.
"Reed beds adjacent to the oil steaming facility at the Chervlennaya-Uzlovaya station in Shelkovskiy District were set alight at 1345 hours [0945 gmt] yesterday. This brought about partial destruction of the insulation on a suspended filling pump. The fire was put out at 1523 hours [1123 gmt]. Nobody was hurt," the spokesman told the agency.
The internal security department of the Chechen Interior Ministry, whose servicemen were guarding the facility, said the fire broke out as a result of a shot from an unidentified weapon fired from armoured train No 3801 of the Russian Railway Troops, which was passing at the time.
An investigation is under way.
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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