St Petersburg metro explosion kills several

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**Co'tor Shas**

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39481770

About 10 people have been killed in an explosion between two underground stations in St Petersburg.
The head of Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the blast hit the train between Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations.
The committee said an explosive device was later found and made safe at another station, Ploshchad Vosstaniya.
President Vladimir Putin said all causes, including terrorism, were being investigated.
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Initial reports suggested there had been two explosions, one at Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations.
A spokesman for St Petersburg's governor said at least 10 people had been killed and 50 injured. But minutes later, Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the death toll was nine, with 20 hurt.
Andrei Przhezdomsky, the head of the committee, said the explosion at 14:40 local time (12:40 BST) was caused by "an unidentified explosive device" but that the exact cause had yet to be determined.

President Putin was in St Petersburg earlier on Monday but is now outside the city, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
"I have already spoken to the head of our special services, they are working to ascertain the cause," he said, at a meeting with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
In pictures: St Petersburg metro explosion
The entire St Petersburg underground network has now been shut down, and Moscow metro officials said they were introducing extra security measures as a result.

St Petersburg's metro system is the 19th busiest in the world, with more than two million passengers every day. It has not suffered attacks before.
However, several transport hubs in Russia have been attacked. In 2010 at least 38 people died in a double suicide bombing on the Moscow metro.
In 2009, a bomb exploded on a high speed train travelling between Moscow and St Petersburg, killing 27 and injuring another 130.
Both attacks were claimed by Islamist groups.

**Kap'n Krump**

That's really sad, I know we have a few Russian posters here.

**feeder**

Fething hell. I hope all our Russian Dakkanaughts are safe.

**Tactical_Spam**

God save the Russians.

**jhe90**

Damn hope no one here is hurt or killed.
Sadly folks are but hopefully in best way not some ofnour own.

**Iron_Captain**

I was on that metro line not too long ago... Why do terrorist attacks always happen in places I went to a few months before? It was the same in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul... This is starting to scare me. Maybe I am cursed?

So sad to see this happening in my beloved Peterburg. I am betting it was the Chechens who did this. I hope they are quickly found and brought to justice. Russia needs to crack down harder on those terrorist bastards.

**Co'tor Shas**

Iron_Captain wrote:
I was on that metro line not too long ago... Why do terrorist attacks always happen in places I went to a few months before? It was the same in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul... This is starting to scare me. Maybe I am cursed?

So sad to see this happening in my beloved Peterburg. I am betting it was the Chechens who did this. I hope they are quickly found and brought to justice. Russia needs to crack down harder on those terrorist bastards.

Could also be ISIS striking back because of Russia's actions in the ME. Either way, it's bad news.

**jhe90**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
Iron_Captain wrote:
I was on that metro line not too long ago... Why do terrorist attacks always happen in places I went to a few months before? It was the same in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul... This is starting to scare me. Maybe I am cursed?

So sad to see this happening in my beloved Peterburg. I am betting it was the Chechens who did this. I hope they are quickly found and brought to justice. Russia needs to crack down harder on those terrorist bastards.

Could also be ISIS striking back because of Russia's actions in the ME. Either way, it's bad news.

...

ISIS.
Surely they would be claiming it by now sick as it sounds.
They always claim there attacks pretty quickly?

**Co'tor Shas**

jhe90 wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Iron_Captain wrote:
I was on that metro line not too long ago... Why do terrorist attacks always happen in places I went to a few months before? It was the same in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul... This is starting to scare me. Maybe I am cursed?

So sad to see this happening in my beloved Peterburg. I am betting it was the Chechens who did this. I hope they are quickly found and brought to justice. Russia needs to crack down harder on those terrorist bastards.

Could also be ISIS striking back because of Russia's actions in the ME. Either way, it's bad news.

...

ISIS.
Surely they would be claiming it by now sick as it sounds.
They always claim there attacks pretty quickly?

They seem to, but they also claim every attack ever, so it's weird that they aren't claiming this one AFAIK.

**CptJake**

They haven't claimed yet. I've seen some speculation Chechen separatists, possibly with gun time in Syria, are behind this.

We'll see.

**nels1031**

Co'tor Shas wrote:

They seem to, but they also claim every attack ever, so it's weird that they aren't claiming this one AFAIK.

Probably tough to check the nightly news/ jihadi twittersphere every night when they are getting proper fethed pretty much everywhere.

**jhe90**

nels1031 wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:

They seem to, but they also claim every attack ever, so it's weird that they aren't claiming this one AFAIK.

Probably tough to check the nightly news/ jihadi twittersphere every night when they are getting proper fethed pretty much everywhere.

Russia killed thr guy who had thr broadband and they cannot get thr internet repaired as the account holder is a crator lol

Though they have been hit hard. Alot of senior figures lost. Propoganda, there oil /finance guy, senior feild command etc.

**Future War Cultist**

Maybe ISIS is too afraid to claim responsibility for this one. This is Russia we're talking about.

**jhe90**

Future War Cultist wrote:
Maybe ISIS is too afraid to claim responsibility for this one. This is Russia we're talking about.

True, Russia is a whole different foe to many others.
They might yet be utter morons though.

**oldravenman3025**

They have a suspect. A guy from Kyrgyzstan, an ethnic Uzbek named Akbarzhon Jalilov. It is believed to be a suicide bombing, with Jalilov being killed in the blast.

Russian officials now believe he may have had ties to Islamic Fundies, despite no obvious links (as of yet). And he didn't openly show signs of hardline fundamentalism, or any support for Jihadism, prior to the incident, according to people who knew him.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-metro-bomb-suspect-a-muslim-born-in-central-asia-investigators/ar-BBzgNmo?OCID=ansmsnnews11

The perp is also suspected of planting two bombs (initially, it was thought to be more than one individual involved). The second bomb, at Vosstaniya Square, was found and deactivated after the metro attack.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/03/explosion-reported-at-st-petersburg-train-station.html

**kronk**

Iron_Captain wrote:
I was on that metro line not too long ago... Why do terrorist attacks always happen in places I went to a few months before? It was the same in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul... This is starting to scare me. Maybe I am cursed?

So sad to see this happening in my beloved Peterburg. I am betting it was the Chechens who did this. I hope they are quickly found and brought to justice. Russia needs to crack down harder on those terrorist bastards.

Stay safe, dude!

**Dreadclaw69**

kronk wrote:
Iron_Captain wrote:
I was on that metro line not too long ago... Why do terrorist attacks always happen in places I went to a few months before? It was the same in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul... This is starting to scare me. Maybe I am cursed?

So sad to see this happening in my beloved Peterburg. I am betting it was the Chechens who did this. I hope they are quickly found and brought to justice. Russia needs to crack down harder on those terrorist bastards.

Stay safe, dude!

I agree stay safe....and let us know your travel plans so we can avoid those places for a while