WORLD IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Chernobyl Toll Put at 250
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A newspaper said the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, the worst commercial nuclear accident in history, took 250 lives instead of the 31 officially reported. A brief article in the weekly Moscow News said deaths not reported by authorities were caused by various illnesses related to the accident. But a spokesman for the agency overseeing the Chernobyl cleanup said that only the 31 deaths officially reported could be traced directly to the accident.
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