Soviets deny casualties
NZPA-Reuter Moscow
A Soviet spokesman yesterday denied that any casualties had occurred in the explosion of an Afghan ammunition dump earlier this month, and said an Afghan Army base reported captured by Muslim rebels did not exist.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gennady Gerasimov, confirmed at a news conference that an explosion occurred at an ammunition distribution point at Kilagay, north of Kabul, on August 11. He said, however, that the Soviet military command in Kabul had in-
formed him that it was not a major arms and ammunition dump, but a small distribution centre, and there were no deaths.
A Western diplomat and guerrilla sources in Islamabad said last week that at least 500 people were killed and some 250 injured in the blast at Kilagay. They said many of the victims were Soviet soldiers or the families of Soviet advisers. Mr Gerasimov said the blast could not have killed families of Soviet advisers because “the rule is that no Soviet families in Afghanistan live anywhere but Kabul.”
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