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Associated PressEnvironmental Protester Slain in SiberiaSaturday July 21, 2007 11:31 AM
By ALEX NICHOLSON
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - Attackers dressed in dark clothes and wielding
metal pipes raided a camp of environmental protesters in Siberia
early Saturday, leaving one dead and several injured, a
spokeswoman for the local administration said.
Eight demonstrators were hospitalized after the attack, one of
whom later died from his injuries, according to the spokeswoman
for the Angarsk city administration, who was not authorized to
give her name.
A criminal investigation had been opened in connection with the
attack, she said.
More than 20 demonstrators had been camped out by a reservoir
near Angarsk, about 2,600 miles east of Moscow, to protest
nuclear waste processing at the state-owned Angarsk Electrolysis
Chemical Plant, Russian news agencies reported, citing local police.
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ReutersRussian environmentalists attacked, one killed21 Jul 2007 11:08:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
MOSCOW, July 21 (Reuters) - A Russian environmentalist was
beaten to death and seven others wounded on Saturday when a
group armed with iron bars and baseball bats attacked their camp
near a nuclear waste processing plant in Siberia.
Russian media reported up to 15 people shouting fascist slogans
attacked the environmentalists, who were living in the camp to
protest against nuclear processing in the city of Angarsk near
Lake Baikal, 5,000 km (3,125 miles) east of Moscow.
"One of the injured died in intensive care as a result of the
attack," Ekho Moskvy radio station quoted one of the
environmental activists, Olga Kozlova, as saying.
Another resident of the camp, Marina Popova, said the attackers
shouted slogans against anti-fascists.
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