Two servicemen suffered while explosion in Baltiysk

27.09.2010 Two Baltic Fleet (BF) conscripts were injured as a result of explosion occurred in a military unit in Baltiysk.

Oxygen regeneration set V-64 exploded on Thursday evening in one of warehouses at a military unit in Baltiysk, reported ITAR-TASS referring to investigator Sergei Neilenko.

Two BF seamen got various thermal burns as a result of the explosion; afterwards, the sufferers were delivered to naval clinical hospital.

Investigators and criminologists presently work at the incident site. Circumstances and causes of the explosion are being found out.

V-64 set is equipped with plates which disengage oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide. One set is capable to provide one person with oxygen for 64 hours.