The Russian navy said today that one of its anti-submarine ships had fired artillery at a village by mistake, state RIA news agency reported.
The navy said no-one had been injured when a small anti-submarine ship yesterday opened fire on a village in the Vyborg region of St Petersburg.
"On the 28 May, a small anti-submarine ship from the Baltic fleet was working on a host of exercises in the gulf of Finland including artillery fire at aerial targets," RIA quoted a navy spokesman as saying.
"No-one was injured."
Russia's navy has been plagued by a series of mishaps since the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000 in which 118 sailors died.
Reuters
