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Explosion on St. Petersburg metro kills nine and injures many more

by Charlie Smith on April 3rd, 2017 at 8:20 AM
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      Russian president Vladimir Putin hasn't ruled out terrorism as the cause of a fatal blast in St. Petersburg.

      An explosion inside the subway killed at least nine people in the city centre and injured dozens of others.

      It occurred on a train as it left Sennaya Ploshchad Station in the middle of the afternoon.

      A second device was found undetonated.

      Previously known as Leningrad, it's the city where Putin was born and grew up.

      The Russian security agency, the FSB, is investigating.

      St. Petersburg has become a popular tourist destination for westerners in recent years. One of its train stations, Avtovo, might be the most ornate the world.

      The metro system has five lines and serves carries two million passengers per day.

      Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi tweeted their condolences.

      As of this writing, U.S. president Donald Trump, who's at the centre of a scandal involving Russian intervention in his 2016 election, has not tweeted out a similar expression of sympathy.

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