Death toll in Russian power plant explosion climbs to 69

August 22nd, 2009 Official: Death toll in Siberian plant blast 64MOSCOW — An official says 17 more bodies have been found at a Siberian power plant, raising the death toll from an accident there to 64. Regional emergency official Dmitry Kudryatsev says rescuers draining the turbine room where the accident happened located the bodies early Saturday.

August 21st, 2009 Putin visits power plant accident site, 26 deadMOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the site of the Siberia power plant accident on Friday, as the confirmed death toll rose to 26, and 49 people remained missing and feared dead. Several bodies were discovered overnight in the destroyed turbine room of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in southern Siberia, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.

August 21st, 2009 MOSCOW — Russian officials say the death toll in the power plant accident has risen to 26 after more bodies were found. Forty-nine are missing and feared dead.

August 19th, 2009 14 dead, 60 feared dead in Siberia plant explosionMOSCOW — Rescue workers found two bodies Wednesday in the destroyed engine room of Russia's largest hydroelectric plant, raising the accident's official death toll to 14, officials said. Sixty other workers are missing and feared dead at the massive Sayano-Shushenskaya power station in southern Siberia after an explosion during repairs Monday blew out walls and caused the turbine room to flood.

August 19th, 2009 13 dead, 61 feared dead in Siberia plant explosionMOSCOW — Rescue workers found a body Wednesday in the destroyed engine room of Russia's largest hydroelectric plant, raising the accident's death toll to 13, officials said. Sixty-one other workers are missing and feared dead at the massive Sayano-Shushenskaya power station in southern Siberia after an explosion Monday blew out walls and caused the turbine room to flood.

August 19th, 2009 13 dead, 61 missing in Siberia plant explosionMOSCOW — Rescue workers found a body Wednesday in the destroyed engine room of Russia's largest hydroelectric plant, raising the accident's death toll to 13, an emergency official said. Sixty-one other workers are still missing at the massive Sayano-Shushenskaya power station in southern Siberia after an explosion Monday blew out walls and caused the turbine room to flood.

August 19th, 2009 Aluminum chief seeks energy after Russian accidentMOSCOW — The head of the world's top aluminum producer visited Russia's largest hydroelectric plant on Wednesday to discuss how his Siberian factories will get enough energy after an accident crippled the power plant and killed at least 14 workers. Rescue workers found two bodies Wednesday in the destroyed turbine room of the massive Sayano-Shushenskaya power station in southern Siberia, raising the confirmed death toll to 14, officials said.

July 17th, 2009 2 injured in explosion at Chicago factoryCHICAGO — Officials say an explosion at a Chicago biodiesel manufacturing plant that injured two workers was caused by a chemical reaction. Deputy Fire Chief Gene Ryan says the reaction caused a partial collapse of the one-story Columbus Foods plant.

July 15th, 2009 French explosion kills at least 2PARIS — Local authorities say an explosion at a petrochemical plant in eastern France has killed at least two people and injured five. An official with the local governor in Moselle, 210 miles (340 kilometers) east of Paris, says the explosion occurred Wednesday at a plant in Carling/Saint-Avold.

July 2nd, 2009 Italy's train derailment death toll rises to 19ROME — Italian officials say the death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany has risen to 19, with 25 people injured. Premier Silvio Berlusconi says 11 of the injured are in very serious condition.

July 1st, 2009 Report: Italian train derailment death toll at 16ROME — News reports say two children have died after suffering severe burns in an explosion that followed a train derailment in northern Italy, raising the death toll to 16. The ANSA news agency and Sky Italia said Wednesday that a 3-year old girl died overnight in a Rome hospital, while a 2-year old boy died in a Florence hospital.

June 29th, 2009 Norway's Yara shuts down Belgian plantOSLO — Fertilizers group Yara International ASA announced Monday that it was shutting down its plant in Belgium after an explosion injured two employees and caused serious damage to the facility. Yara spokesman Asle Skredderberget said the plant suffered "substantial" damage in the blast, which occurred Saturday, and that the company has sent a team to investigate.

June 28th, 2009 Death toll in Okla. turnpike crash rises to 10OKLAHOMA CITY — The death toll from a chain-reaction accident on an Oklahoma turnpike this weekend has risen to 10.

January 13th, 2009 MOSCOW - Iran is confident that Russia will fulfil its commitment of building its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran's envoy to Russia has said. 'Iran did not believe that the Russian side has deliberately delayed completion of the 1,000-MW power plant in Bushehr,' Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi told a Russian newspaper, the IRNA news agency reported.

January 13th, 2009 MOSCOW - Iran is confident that Russia will fulfil its commitment of building its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran's envoy to Russia has said. 'Iran did not believe that the Russian side has deliberately delayed completion of the 1,000-MW power plant in Bushehr,' Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi told a Russian newspaper, the IRNA news agency reported.