
The Kursk unloaded nine cruise missiles the main problem for the investigative brigade was the search under the fragments of the boat of the bodies of the dead sailors.
Out of 22 cruise missiles on board the Kursk nuclear power plant, nine have been extracted by today. To remove the remaining 13 from the starting mines and send the remaining 13 to a special training ground, it will take at least two weeks. This was announced the night before at a meeting with reporters from the Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Navy Vladimir Kuroyedov. However, the main concern of the military and investigative brigade, according to him, is the search under the wreckage of the submarines of the bodies of the dead sailors, ITAR-TASS reports.
By the morning of the environment from the Kursk compartments, the bodies of 52 dead submariners were extracted. This was announced by Interfax in Murmansk, the head of the press center of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Leonid Troshin. According to him, investigators and forensic experts worked throughout the last night, as a result of which the bodies of three more dead were extracted. As the representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office noted, the investigation team continues to search and extract the bodies of the dead sailors. According to Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, under the rubble in Kursk there are still bodies of submariners who should be raised in the very near future.
As for the investigation, then to the final conclusions of the investigation about the causes of the catastrophe of the nuclear crossing, the work of the investigative brigade has just begun. But, obviously, some conclusions can be drawn today. Apparently, there is reason to believe that the crushing explosion in the first compartment, which destroyed Kursk, did not happen at all during the submarine torpedo attack, as some suggested. If this were so, the personnel, according to the combat alarm schedule, would be at posts and command posts, the Labor newspaper reports.