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Collapse of barracks in Russia kills 23 soldiers


MOSCOW — A late-night barracks collapse killed 23 people and wounded at least 19 others in south-central Russia, as soldiers at a training center for airborne forces were crushed in their beds by a cascade of concrete and metal, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday.

Officials announced the death toll Monday after finishing an all-night search-and-rescue operation at the barracks, on the base of the 242nd Airborne Training Center in Omsk, a regional capital in southwest Siberia about 70 miles from the border with Kazakhstan.

Photographs showed the barracks, a four-story blue-and-white concrete rectangle flanked by identical buildings, with a jagged gash …read more

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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