Leaked torpedo fuel cause of Kursk blast, say Russians

THE Russian government confirmed yesterday that leaked torpedo fuel and not a foreign submarine or a Second World War mine caused the explosions that destroyed the Kursk nuclear submarine.

All 118 men on board died as it sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in one of Russia’s worst post-Soviet disasters.

General Prosecutor Vladimir Ustinov made the announcement after meeting President Vladimir Putin, who told the prosecutor