Crew of nuclear submarine Tomsk was not hurt by fire - source

VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 16 (Interfax-AVN) - The crew of the Project 949-А submarine Tomsk, which caught fire in the floating dock of the plant Zvezda (Bolshoi Kamen, Primorye) left the sub on time and no one was hurt in the fire, the Main Headquarters of the Russian Navy told Interfax-AVN on Monday.

"The crew left the submarine immediately after some appeared between its compartments. There is currently no one inside the sub, there is no fire and no smoke," the source said.

The source also specified that the fire occurred on the nuclear submarine Tomsk, not the nuclear submarine Irkutsk, which is in Kamchatka.