Russian Navy shells Vladivostok

A Russian Navy ship fired a shell at an apartment block in Vladivostok Friday, the second friendly fire incident for the Russian Navy this year.

The shell landed just feet from a 9 story building in a residential area of Vladivostok, breaking windows and leaving a 1.5-meter crater local media reported. No one was believed to be injured, although a bomb disposal team was sent in to remove the shell, despite claims that the shell itself was only a dummy.

A Russian naval spokesman said that the shell was supposed to land in the ocean, and it was not clear how it ended up where it did.

In May, a Russian ship shelled a village in the Leningrad region by accident.

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