THE first pictures from inside the St Petersburg underground made the carnage horribly clear: a metro carriage with its doors blown off their hinges and bloodied bodies strewn across the platform. “I heard a bang, and felt a strong jolt and the smell of gunpowder,” Andrei Shurshev, an eyewitness, told local reporters. Russia’s investigative committee soon confirmed what most had suspected—that the explosion, which killed at least ten and left over 50 wounded, was being treated as an act of terror. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, who was in town for a meeting with Aleksandr Lukashenko, his Belarusian counterpart, promised that the security services would “do everything to find out the causes of what had happened”.
The bomb went off at around 2.30pm on April 3rd along a central commuter line between the stations of Sennaya Ploshchad and Technologichesky Institute. Eyewitnesses told of passengers attempting to climb out of the carriages through the windows. Law-enforcement sources report that security cameras recorded a man leaving the bomb inside the carriage. Authorities shut down the city metro system, as well as St Petersburg’s international...Continue reading
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