Novosibirsk: ‘No risk’ after blast and fire at Russian lethal virus lab (BBC)

A major Russian research centre studying lethal viruses including Ebola and HIV says there was no biological contamination from an explosion and fire in one of its buildings.

The Vektor centre is in Koltsovo, a town near Novosibirsk in Siberia.

The fire was caused by the explosion of a gas canister but “no work with biological materials was going on there”, a statement said.

Vektor was reportedly a Cold War biological weapons research centre. Read more