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Rescuers carry a stretcher with the body of a victim at the site of the damaged dam of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-electric power station near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki
17 Aug 2009
Source: Reuters
 
Rescuers carry a stretcher with the body of a victim at the site of the damaged dam of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-electric power station near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, about 520 km (323 miles) south of Krasnoyarsk, August 17, 2009. Ten people were killed on Monday and 62 were missing after a turbine room flooded at Russia's largest hydro-power station, forcing steel and aluminium plants in Siberia to turn to emergency power. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA DISASTER ENERGY)
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Rescuers carry a stretcher with the body of a victim at the site of the damaged dam of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro-electric power station near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, about 520 km ...


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