MOSCOW (AP) – At least 17 people have been killed in last week’s fire at a Russian military research facility, authorities said Monday.
The regional government in Tver, a town about 180 kilometers (112 miles) northwest of Moscow, said only five of the victims had been identified so far.
The fire at the Central Research Institute for Air and Space Defense of the Russian Defense Ministry in Tver broke out on Thursday and it took authorities a day to extinguish it.
Officials previously said 27 people were injured and 13 of them were hospitalized.
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.
The research institute was involved in the development of some of Russia’s state-of-the-art weapon systems, which are said to include the Iskander missile.
