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Minister confirms two deaths at Brazilian Antarctic base
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February 26, 2012, Sunday
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DEFENSE Minister Celso Amorim confirmed the deaths of two navy personnel after an explosion at a Brazilian research base in Antarctica earlier yesterday.
The two, who had been reported missing earlier, were identified as non-commissioned officer Carlos Alberto Vieira Figueiredo and sergeant Roberto Lopes dos Santos.
"In an act of heroism, they were precisely in the area of major risk in a bid to extinguish a fire and they did not succeed," Amorim said.
A third navy personnel named as navy sergeant Luciano Gomes Medeiros was injured in the blast, which occurred after a fire in a room housing energy generators of the Comandante Ferraz research base located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The two, who had been reported missing earlier, were identified as non-commissioned officer Carlos Alberto Vieira Figueiredo and sergeant Roberto Lopes dos Santos.
"In an act of heroism, they were precisely in the area of major risk in a bid to extinguish a fire and they did not succeed," Amorim said.
A third navy personnel named as navy sergeant Luciano Gomes Medeiros was injured in the blast, which occurred after a fire in a room housing energy generators of the Comandante Ferraz research base located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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