In Bangladesh, the police are investigating the circumstances of the death of five Russians working on the construction of the Rooppur nuclear power plant within 11 days. The UNB message was noticed by the RTVI channel.
Photo: @Syndroma3/Twitter
So, on January 28, 48-year-old Alexei Barchenko died in the medical center of the city of Ishvardi. On February 2, 40-year-old Alexei Shakirov died in his sleep. Three days later, on February 5, Pavel Shchukin, a 48-year-old mechanical engineer of the Trest RosSEM subcontractor, died at the Ishvardi medical center. On the same day, the body of an employee of another subcontractor company, 59-year-old Vasily Tolmasov, was found near an apartment on the 14th floor of the tower in the Green City residential complex, where Russians working at nuclear power plants live. On February 6, a 45-year-old employee of the NIKIMT-Atomstroy enterprise, Alexander Vorotnikov, was found dead in one of the residential complex apartments.
The head of the police, Ishvardi, said that nothing suspicious was found during the autopsy of the bodies of the Russians. “One of them was using drugs, while the other had a heart condition. However, we are investigating all deaths,” he said.
The Rooppur nuclear power plant construction site is located on the eastern bank of the Padma River, 160 kilometers from the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka. The nuclear power plant is being built according to the Russian project. The foundation stone of the future power plant was laid in 2013. The first block of the nuclear power plant is planned to be launched in 2023, the second — in 2024.