Russian worker found dead at RNPP

Staff Reporter :

A Russian worker was found dead in a washroom of the residential Green City of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project in Pabna, police said on Friday.

The deceased Ivan Kaitmazov, 40, was employed at the power plant as an electric circuit installer with the project’s Skem Company, said Inspector (Investigation) Monirul Islam of Ishwardi Police Station.

His body was discovered five days after his death in the washroom of Flat No 95, located on the 9th floor of Building 14, on Thursday around 7pm, police said.

Kaitmazov’s body was found with a rope tied around his neck. Green City doctor declared him dead at the scene. “Initially, it is suspected that he may have committed suicide,” the inspector said.

A post-mortem examination will provide further details, he added.
This incident follows the death of another Russian worker, 40-year-old Pashataruk Ksenella, who jumped from the fourth floor of a 20-storey building at Green City on January 4.