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2017-04-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Reports of an explosion ~~(3)~~ in a metro station in central #StPetersburg, #Russia

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-04-03 08:37|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 CNN reporting on blast.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-03 08:48|| 2017-04-03 08:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Could be a lot of enemies at this point for Russia. I'm still betting on Methodists.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-04-03 09:09|| 2017-04-03 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia Today live

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-03 09:17|| 2017-04-03 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 It's been more than half an hour, and Islamists aren't all dead. I guess Putin lied.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-04-03 09:32|| 2017-04-03 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Russia Today has opened a tab specific to the incident here.

Both CNN and Russia Today are updating -- thank you for the links, gentlemen. From both: ten dead, fifty wounded, twenty-five of the wounded sent to hospital. Explosion took place in a subway car in a tunnel berween stations, the entire St. Petersburg subway system has been shut down and passengers evacuated -- presumably in case there is another bomb somewhere.

President Putin announced they do not yet know who dunnit, and they are looking into all possibilities including accident and terrorism.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-03 10:10|| 2017-04-03 10:10|| Front Page Top

#6 The Daily Mail is doing what they do best:

Two suspected terrorists are on the run after a nail bomb planted in a St Petersburg train ripped through the carriages - killing at least 10 people and injury 50 today.

Several Russian media outlets have released the CCTV picture of the bearded suspect who was wearing a long, black top and a hat blamed for causing the carnage by detonating a bomb that was packed with shrapnel.

The terrifying incident took place on a train that was travelling between Sennaya Ploshchad and Sadovaya metro stations. A second explosive device disguised as a fire extinguisher was found and defused in a nearby station.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosion, but previous attacks on Russia have been blamed on ISIS and Chechens.

A search warrant has now been issued for two people in connection with the attack - one for planting the bomb which detonated at Sennaya Ploshchad and the other for leaving an explosive device at Ploshchad Revolutsii station.

A source said: 'Two people are being sought on suspicion of planning the blasts, one of whom is thought to have placed the explosive device in the metro wagon and the second person for leaving a bomb at the metro station Ploshchad Revolutsii.'

Dozens have been injured, including at least three children, as it was reported the man left a briefcase on a train before moving carriages moments before the deadly blast.

The DM photo of the fire extinguisher bomb shows it was filled with ball bearings, and the photos of the man who left the bomb that went off between stations are black & white and grainy -- hopefully the experts can make more of them than I can. RT reports six of those in hospital remain in critical condition. Various reports have ten or eleven dead. CNN reports that the train conductor saved lives by continuing to the next station after the explosion, so that the wounded could more easily be evacuated and treated, and 39 remain hospitalized. CNN is providing background on several attacks by Chenchnyan jihadis, showing their thinking about the miscreants, and has many of the same photos as the Daily Mail.

Drudge Report links to a Vocativ report that ISIS is celebrating, which does not prove they were involved in any way, but that may make the Russian response more interesting.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-03 14:01|| 2017-04-03 14:01|| Front Page Top

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