MOSCOW. May 18 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Defense Ministry press service officially confirmed on Saturday the death of three servicemen from a unit of the Far Eastern military district in an artillery shell blast.
"The accident is being investigated by a special commission led by the district's commander Colonel General Yuri Yakubov," chief of the press service Colonel Nikolai Deryabin told Interfax- Military News Agency.
"According to early reports, safety rules were violated in treatment of ammunition at a proving range," Deryabin said.