MOSCOW - The city where Russia's main nuclear research facility is based announced a day of mourning Sunday for five staff killed during a missile test that caused elevated radiation levels.
The closed city of Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, about 500km east of Moscow, announced 24 hours of mourning from 1 pm Sunday with flags lowered and entertainment events cancelled, RIA Novosti state news agency reported.The Rosatom nuclear agency said memorial services would be held Monday. Rosatom said the accident happened when a missile was being tested on a marine platform in the far northern Arkhangelsk region.Russia's military in an initial statement said two were killed in the accident and it was not known whether those two deaths were among the five that Rosatom reported.
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