Lyudmila Zhernovskaya20:51, 03/21/24

Three crew members died, four more were in hospital.

The Russian military fired a missile at its trawler Kapitan Lobanov during a Baltic Fleet exercise . The second rocket fell into fishing nets nearby.

This was reported by the Russian TV channel “Dozhd” with reference to a relative of a crew member. According to him, the rocket fell on the captain’s cabin of a fishing trawler and was simply blown away. As a result of the strike, three crew members were killed and four more were injured. 

According to the source, the survivors are in the Pionersk hospital, one of the victims is in serious condition. They have already been interrogated by employees of the Federal Security Service, urging them not to talk about what happened.

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What they say in Russia about the incident: 

On Tuesday, March 19, the press secretary of the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Dmitry Lyskov, said that a fire occurred on board the trawler “Captain Lobanov” in the Baltic Sea.

The Russians said four people were taken to hospital and another died in the fire. The trawler itself is being towed to the port of Kaliningrad.

According to Russian media, there were seven people on board, three of whom died. During the day, on the ship, which was heading to Baltiysk, “there was a bang and a fire broke out.”

(C)UNIAN 2024