Yet another Russian employee of Rooppur nuke plant dies
Another Russian national who worked in Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project has died in Green City residential area under Ishwardi upazila in Pabna, police said on Monday.
The deceased is Ivanov Anton, 33. He used to work as an employee of Rosem Company, a Russian contractor for the project.
With this, eight foreign employees of the nuke plant have died this year.
He used to live in room number 126 on the 12th floor of building No 2 in Green City residential area, a housing project for foreigners at Natun Hat in Sahapur of the upazila, said Arbinda Sarkar, officer-in-charge of Ishwardi police station.
Ivanov fell unconscious in front of the elevator on the way back to his room after buying food from a restaurant near Green City Sunday night, he said.
Later, the physicians at Rooppur project declared him dead. The body was handed over to police.
‘Ivanov might have died of a cardiac arrest,’ the OC added.
With the latest one, six Russian employees, a Belarusian and a Kazak national have died at the Rooppur Nuke Plant site this year.
On April 15, Belarusian man Ivanu Maxim, 52, an employee of contractor firm Ruinwald of the under-construction project, was found dead at the Green City residential area.
Police suspected that Maxim died of cardiac arrest.
On March 26, Kazakhstan national Vladimir Soviet, an employee of contractor firm Nikim at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, was killed at a house in Ishwardi Rooppur Residential Project Green city.
Three Belarus nationals- Urbanavichus Vitali, 44, Fedarovich Henadz, 42, and Matsveyeu Uladzimir, 43 - were detained from the area for their involvement in the killing. They work at Russian company Rossem.
A court in Pabna sent three Belarus citizens to jail on March 28, a day after Iurii Fedorov, director of the contracting firm, filed the case accusing them of committing the murder, said Raihan Pervez, sub-inspector of Ishwardi Police Station.
From January 28 to February 6, as many as five Russian employees of the nuke plant died, prompting the police to initiate a probe.
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