INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Multiple explosions near a Russian naval air base on the western coast of annexed Crimea killed one person and injured several more Tuesday,
according to eyewitness accounts and local pro-Kremlin officials.Videos filmed by eyewitnesses show a huge plume of black smoke rising from
explosion had taken place but said they were still working to determine the cause."I can confirm the fact of several explosions in the area
I ask everyone to wait for the official information and not to spread [fake] explanations," Oleg Kryuchkov, an aide to the Moscow-installed
head of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov, said on the Telegram messaging app.Officials initially said that no one had been hurt but Aksyonov later
said that one person had died as a result of the blasts.Earlier Tuesday, the region's top health official said that five people including a
child had been injured.Aksoynov posted a video from the explosion site, where he can be seen saying that residential buildings located near
hurt."Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin-backed RT network, also quickly dismissed rumors of the explosions being the result
Several munitions detonated at the storage area
