A pensioner in the Russian region of Primorye blew up his neighbor’s toilet and then killed himself following an apparent quarrel between them on Monday afternoon, RIA Novosti reported March 20.
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March 21, 2007A fire in a Russian home for the elderly killed at least 63 people on Tuesday night, the Associated Press news agency reported quoting officials from the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
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March 20, 2007Death toll in Russian Siberian coal mine explosion reached 97 on Tuesday morning and rescuers desperately toiled to save 13 miners still trapped in the mine, the Reuters news agency reports.
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According to Russian emergency officials an explosion occurred in a Siberian coal mine on Monday, no casualties have been reported yet.
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March 19, 2007A Russian Tupolev-134 passenger jet crashed during landing in the airport of Samara on Saturday morning, killing 5 people and wounding at least 51, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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March 17, 2007One Russian citizen was killed and another injured in a bomb explosion in Algeria, Russia’s foreign ministry said Sunday.
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March 4, 2007Two more people have tested positive for low levels of polonium 210, the radioactive poison that killed former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Reuters news agency quoted British health authorities as saying on Wednesday.
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January 6, 2007British health authorities said Tuesday three more hotel workers tested positive for low levels of the radioactive element that killed former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, The Associated Press news agency reports.
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December 22, 2006Four Russian geologists were killed in a massive rock slide in the Russian Far East on Wednesday, an Emergency Ministry spokesman said, adding that one body trapped under rubble and ice had not yet been recovered, Reuters news agency reports.
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December 21, 2006Dutch health authorities said on Friday they have called in about 20 people for radiation testing after they stayed in a London hotel where poisoned former Russian FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko also spent time, Reuters news agency reports.
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