SEVEROMORSK. Jan 18 (Interfax-Northwest) - Criminal investigators have gotten inside two secret communications posts aboard the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, which sank in 2000, but was raised from the seabed in autumn last year, an official said.
After removing debris that barred their way, the investigators entered a secret automatic communications post and a secret government communications post, Northern Fleet Prosecutor Colonel Vladimir Mulov told Interfax.
Secret equipment is being removed from the posts, both of which are on the middle deck of the Kursk, which sank during an exercise in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 crewmembers.
Mulov said no bodies have been found on board since December 26, by which time 79 had been recovered from the submarine, 75 of which have been identified.
Mulov said investigators were working "without slowing the pace," and were hoping to finish work inside the vessel next month.
Workers at the ship repair plant in Roslyakovo, near Murmansk, helped investigators remove debris that blocked their way to the communications posts.