Siberian military base is rocked by new explosions when lightning detonates artillery shells four days after massive blast killed one and injured 13
- Footage shared on social media showed fireball illuminating sky above the depot
- People living close to base in Achinsk were evacuated due to exploding shells
- The remote Siberian weapons base had previously been rocked by an explosion
- This time, lightning caused a huge fire that led to new blasts at munition base
Lightning has struck a remote Siberian military base causing a series of explosions just four days after huge blasts had rocked the depot.
People living close to the base in Achinsk were evacuated due to exploding shells and at least five are thought to be injured.
Footage shared on social media showed a fireball illuminating the sky above the depot.
‘A shell exploded, wounding five servicemen and damaging a vehicle during work on de-mining and eliminating the consequences of the emergency situation in Kamenka,’ local authorities in Krasnoyarsk said in a statement.
The latest blast comes four days after another series of blasts at the base killed one and injured 13 others.
The series of huge explosions at the major munitions depot on August 5 led to a mass evacuation.
Exploding missiles caused massive fireworks at the depot posing dangers to residents, with a 13-mile radius being evacuated as a giant fire raged.
But there were reports of soldiers from the the military facility next to the exploding ammunition depot hiding in a bomb shelter and unable to escape.
The explosion comes hours after ambulances covered in protective film were seen transporting six Russians who suffered serious radiation poisoning in another mysterious military accident in Moscow.
Alarming footage also shows men in protective clothing loading casualties into the vehicles ahead of their transfer for treatment at Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Centre in Moscow.
Earlier the clothes of the victims and the medics who first treated them were destroyed, it was reported.
It comes after two were killed and six injured in a blast at the Nyonoksa weapons testing site in the sub-Arctic Arkhangelsk region yesterday. Moscow has thrown a veil of secrecy over the incident.
Radiation levels are said to have temporarily soared 20 times above the normal level in Severodvinsk, a city 18 miles away, sparking ‘panic’ and ‘hysteria’ and a rush to buy iodine from pharmacies.
Today, reports surfaced in Russia claiming the spike in radiation may have been caused when one of Vladimir Putin’s top secret Zircon hypersonic missiles exploded during tests.
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