KRASNOYARSK, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Rescuers recovered on Wednesday the last body, missing following an accident at a Siberian hydroelectric station last month, the new discovery brings the death toll to 75 people.
Water surged into the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant on Siberia's Yenisei River on August 17 destroying a turbine hall and killing 75 people.
"The body [of a woman] was found today, we believe it is Marina Rau," said Viktor Feller, chief criminal investigator at the Khakassian Russian Prosecutor General's Office.
Identification procedures and an autopsy have already been scheduled.
Russian investigative committee head Vladimir Markin said that the body could be Marina Rau, born in 1967, who worked at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro power plant.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for a thorough and objective investigation into the disaster.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said that the accident was caused, among other things, by poor technical control on the part of the plant's management, and that the commission investigating the incident was expected to deliver its report in the near future.
Nikolai Kutyin, who heads Rostekhnadzor, hinted that the report would point to "technical and administrative faults."
Putin also demanded that equipment at all hydroelectric plants across the country be checked, and proposed drafting a set of common regulations for their operation as a preventive measure.
"Technical safety, the protection of people's lives must be the priority," the Russian premier said.
