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Ansip says 'case is closed'

Oct 01, 2009
From wire reports

OFF LIMITS: Prime Minister Andrus Ansip believes further investigation into ferry disaster not needed.
TALLINN - Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip has rejected calls for a new inquiry into the 1994 Baltic sea ferry disaster that claimed 852 lives, as claims of a cover-up continue to circulate, reports news agency LETA. "The government has no plan to launch a new investigation, nor to request a study of the wreck" of the vessel, which went down exactly 15 years ago, Ansip said. The ferry Estonia sank on the night of Sept. 28, 1994, as it sailed from the Estonian capital Tallinn en route to ...

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