Moscow - A 20-year-old anti-nuclear protester was killed when a group of 15 hooded attackers raided an environmentalist camp near a nuclear site in Siberia, media reports said Sunday. Several other anti-nuclear protesters were still injured in hospital, Russian radio station Echo Moskwy reported on Sunday, referring to witnesses.
The inhabitants of the camp, which is located near an
international uranium enrichment site in the Siberian town of Angarsk near Irkutsk, had been protesting against nuclear waste for days.
The police arrested five of the attackers, who witnesses thought were right-wing extremists.
The attack happened early on Saturday morning.
According to official reports, the suspected perpetrators attacked the camp with bats to rob the inhabitants.
The environmentalists complained on radio Echo Moskwy that their protests had been closely watched by the police for days.
The government's nuclear energy authority Rosatom called for a speedy explanation of the attack.
Uranium in Angarsk had been enriched for peaceful purposes for 50 years, the authority said in a statement.
The nuclear waste was no danger to the population, it said.
