ST. PETERSBURG\SEVEROMORSK. Jan 14 (Interfax-Northwest) - Investigators from the Northern Fleet Military Prosecutor's Office are continuing to clear debris in the third compartment of the Kursk submarine, Northern Fleet Military Prosecutor Vladimir Mulov told Interfax on Monday.
The investigators and workers of the ship-repairing plant in Roslyakovo, where the nuclear-powered submarine is docked, "are dismantling metal structures" to gain access to two posts on the lower deck of the compartment, he said.
Mulov hopes they may find more bodies there.
The latest body was found inside the Kursk on December 26, 2001, the prosecutor said. All in all, 91 bodies have been retrieved from the submarine, including the 12 bodies raised to the Barents Sea's surface in fall 2000. Eighty-seven submariners have been identified.
The submarine had 118 people on board when it sank on August 12, 2000.