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October 30, 2000 

MURMANSK, Russia (AP) - Russian and Norwegian divers Sunday recovered several more bodies from the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, news reports said.

The bodies were taken from the eighth and ninth compartments in the stern of the submarine, the ITAR-Tass news agency said after divers worked through the night to recover more of the 118 men killed when it sank.

"Divers have retrieved several more bodies of the Kursk's crew," Vladimir Navrotsky, the spokesman for the Russian Navy's northern fleet told the Interfax news agency. He did now say how many bodies had been recovered.

The divers worked through the night to cut a hole through the thick rubber covering over the inner hull above the Kursk's ninth compartment, Navrotsky said.

Clearing weather allowed a helicopter to bring four bodies recovered earlier to the ship's home port of Severomorsk, where there was to be a memorial service, ITAR-Tass reported. The bodies were pulled out Wednesday through an opening cut in the submarine's eighth compartment.