MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday opened a criminal case to establish why water was contaminated off Russia’s far eastern coast and sea creatures killed, the Investigative Committee said on its website.
Conservation group WWF described the pollution as toxic. Greenpeace last week said it looked like an ecological disaster off the coast of Kamchatka region, where dead sea creatures washed up on the shore.
(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova and Anastasia Lyrchikova; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Jon Boyle)
