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previously considered missing.Morozov said 11 people were hospitalized after the blasts with a "danger radius" around the depot being 7 km (4 miles), adding that over 3,000 people had been evacuated from the nearby areas after the explosions started at about 3:30 pm Moscow time (12:30 GMT) at the depot belonging to military enterprise 31st Arsenal.
He ruled out a terrorist attack, saying the fire will be fully extinguished by morning. Negligence and mishandling of weapons are the main reasons being investigated.
The Russian Federal Security Service reported earlier that the fire emerged during a controlled operation to destroy ammunition because "the set cycle was broken." The fire "entailed further blasts of ammunition," the service said.
Local railroad communication was suspended after the explosions but later resumed.
Ulyanovsk is located 900 km (560 miles) east of Moscow. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin was born there.
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