Two nail bombs on St Petersburg metro rip through carriages, killing at least 10

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Two nail bombs on the metro in St Petersburg ripped through train carriages killing at least 10 people today.

The incident occurred at two separate locations including Sennaya Ploshchad train station leaving at least 50 injured including children.

Eight ambulances are said to be at the scene and there are pictured emerging of bodies strewn across the platform.

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The Life News website showed pictures of blown-out train doors and several injured people on the station platform.

Metro bosses said there were reports of a blast – possibly from an improvised explosive device – inside a train.

Vladimir Putin was in St Petersburg today for talks and has been informed.

The subway's administration says several stations in the northern Russian city have been closed and that an evacuation is underway Monday afternoon.

Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been informed about the explosion.

Putin is visiting the city today and is expected to hold talks with the Belarusian president later in the day.

Sennaya Ploshad is one of the Russian city’s main metro stations, where three underground lines connect.

It is beneath the large ‘Sennaya’ shopping centre as well as the offices of Gazprombank, Russia’s third largest bank.

Source: Daily Mirror

 

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• Explosion on Metro train in Russian city of St Petersburg
• At least 14 killed and dozens injured by 'briefcase' bomb
• Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen named as suspect
• Blast reported to have been caused by shrapnel-filled device
• Another unexploded bomb deactivated at another station
• Putin was in city for meeting with Belarusian counterpart
• Everything we know so far about the St Petersburg explosion

The likely suspect in the deadly blast in the Russian city of St Petersburg is a Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen, Kyrgyzstan's security service has revealed.

A spokesman for the GKNB security service identified the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, born in the city of Osh in 1995. He provided no other details.

It came as Russian investigators said on Tuesday morning that a suicide bomber is believed to have been behind the blast.

Kyrgyzstan, a predominantly Muslim Central Asian nation of six million, is Russia's close political ally and hosts a Russian military airbase.

Russian authorities said they were investigating a suspected suicide bombing on Monday after a blast on the Saint Petersburg subway system killed 14 people and wounded dozens.

Russian authorities raised the death toll from 11 to 14 on Tuesday morning.

The blast, which struck a crowded metro train near the historic city centre at 2:20 local time, and came as Vladimir Putin was visiting the city.

Shortly afterwards a larger, unexploded device was reported to have been found at one of the city’s busiest metro stations, prompting authorities to close the entire underground transport system. Search warrants were issued for two people.


"A blast occurred at Sennaya Ploshchad metro station,” a police source told the Russian news agency Tass, “several people have been injured."

St Petersburg Metro explosion: Russian investigators believe suicide bomber caused blast that killed 14 as suspect named

 

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