Russia: Private Charged After Cigarette Detonates Explosives

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The Main Military Investigative Department has filed charges against a private, Alexander Kasatkin, for violating a ban on smoking while handling explosives, officials said Thursday. A discarded cigarette butt apparently ignited a fire that caused 4,000 tons of ammunition to detonate Tuesday morning outside Orenburg, in southern Russia. Private Kasatkin, who survived, admitting to smoking while unloading ammunition from a train, Russian news media reported.