Monday, December 30, 2013
Russian Suffers Another Deadly Blast Attack In Main Railway Station
Another massive explosion at has led 22 people injured including including one-year-old baby in Russian city of Volgograd. This deadly blast comes a day after an attack killed at least 17 people in the main railway station
According to Dailymail
Russia faces a New Year security nightmare after the second devastating suicide bomb explosion within 24 hours, this time on a rush hour trolley bus in Volgograd. The latest blast killed at least 14 with 28 wounded, some severely.
A day earlier, an explosion reported as being detonated by a female "black widow" suicide bomber saw 17 killed and dozens wounded in the city's main railway station.
The latest explosion was said by law enforcement officials to have been caused by a man detonating a bomb in a crowded trolley bus packed with early morning commuters. 'The explosives were detonated by a male suicide bomber, fragments of whose body have been found and sent for DNA testing to identify him,' said Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee, equivalent of the FBI. 'According to preliminary information, the explosive device was the equivalent of at least 4 kg of TNT, and like the explosive device used at the railway station, it was stuffed with metal filings.
It was not immediately clear why he is suspected. The blasts are causing panic in the city, and deep concern all over Russia as people prepare to celebrate the New Year. President Vladimir Putin ordered security to be stepped up across all nine time zones in Russia, and especially around fear-stricken Volgograd, a city known as Stalingrad in the Soviet era. He ordered the head of Russian secret services Alexander Bortnikov to fly to Volgograd amid fears of a campaign of terror aimed at disrupting preparations for the Sochi Winter Olympics in February.
Sochi is around 425 miles from Volgograd. While forensic work is underway, security officials already suspect the mayhem was unleashed by followers of Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov who earlier this year threatened to hit civilian targets and urged followed to "to their utmost to derail"the Olympics.
Among the wounded in Monday's blast was a one year old child. Television footage of the scene, near a market in the Dzerzhinsky region of the city, showed debris strewn across the street around the blackened shell of the trolleybus. The vehicle's roof was blown out by the force of the explosion which also smashed windows in nearby houses.
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