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Russian warship fires on village by mistake

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-06-03 09:39

MOSCOW -- The Russian navy said on Friday that one of its anti-submarine ships had fired artillery at a village by mistake, state RIA news agency reported.

Russian warships open fire during a presentation during Navy Day celebrations in a file photo. [Agencies]

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The navy said no-one had been injured when a small anti-submarine ship on last Thursday opened fire on a village in the Vyborg region of St Petersburg.

"On the 28 May, a small anti-submarine ship from the Baltic fleet was working on a host of exercises in the gulf of Finland including artillery fire at aerial targets," RIA quoted a navy spokesman as saying. "No-one was injured."

Russia's navy has been plagued by a series of mishaps since the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000 in which 118 sailors died.