TIL Desk/World/Saint Petersburg- A blast hit the metro system of Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg authorities said, with news agencies quoting security sources as saying that about 11 people have been killed. “The Saint Petersburg prosecutor’s office has begun to investigate the blast in a train carriage” at the Technological Institute metro station’s platform, the prosecutors’ statement said.
Hours later, anguish and fear rose again when police found and defused a shrapnel-packed explosive device at another St. Petersburg station. A source in the emergencies services told that “around 11 people were killed”, according to preliminary information.
The station is a busy hub of the underground network in the centre of Russia’s second largest city. The Saint Petersburg metro said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that it has closed two stations, Technological Institute and Sennaya Ploshchad — two neighbouring stations on one line — and is evacuating all passengers.
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