User blog:Bzero/Siberian Massacre

MOSCOW April 16 (Reuters) - Rescue workers arriving to bring food and medical supplies to the remote Siberian city of Norilsk in Russia instead made a grisly find - the entire population had been wiped out months ago during the Great Flood of 2011. Only now as water recedes has the tragedy been exposed.

Norilsk, the northernmost city in Siberia and the world's second largest city north of the Arctic Circle, had become a refugee settlement with the flooding of the Central Siberian Plateau. The mining and production city sheltered those driven to the high grounds of the Putorana Mountains after the rest of the plateau was inundated by the rising Arctic Ocean.

Initial reports suggest that the flood survivors were then wiped out by what appears to have been a military air strike. Additionally, conflicting local accounts report that the mummified corpse of a displaced sperm whale was found in the center of town, next to what appeared to be an energy weapon of unknown alien origin.

Russian officials have made no official comment on the situation, and the status of Norilsk as a closed city is keeping out foreign journalists.