2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing | |
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Part of Terrorism in Russia and Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
![]() Memorial of flowers at the metro station Tekhnologichesky Institut after terrorist attack
2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing (Central Saint Petersburg) 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing (European Russia) | |
Location | On a Saint Petersburg Metro train between Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Coordinates | 59°54′59″N 30°19′07″E / 59.91639°N 30.31861°E |
Date | 3 April 2017 14:40[1] (FET (UTC +3)) |
Target | Civilians |
Attack type | Suicide bombing[2] |
Weapons | Nail bomb |
Deaths | 16 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 64[3] |
Perpetrator | Imam Shamil Battalion[4] |
Assailants | Akbarzhon Jalilov |
On 3 April 2017, a terrorist attack using an explosive device took place on the Saint Petersburg Metro between Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations.[5] Eleven people (including the perpetrator) were initially reported to have died, and five more died later from their injuries, bringing the total to 15.[6][7][8][9][10]
At least 45 others were injured in the incident.[11][12] The explosive device was contained in a briefcase.[11] A second explosive device was found and defused at Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station.[9] The suspected perpetrator was named as Akbarzhon Jalilov, a Russian citizen who was an ethnic Uzbek born in Kyrgyzstan.[13]
In addition to killing 14, the blast on Monday wounded 64 others, Aleksandr Rzhanenkov, a St. Petersburg official, said at a news briefing.
The April 3 bombing on the St Petersburg metro was the highest-profile terror attack on Russian soil since a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport in January 2011.
В результате взрыва в метро Санкт-Петербурга погибли 14 человек, сообщила министр здравоохранения России Вероника Скворцова. [In the aftermath of explosion in the metro of Saint Petersburg 14 people have died, reported by the minister of health of Russia Veronika Skvortsova]
The Russian Investigative Committee has qualified the blast as a terrorist attack, but other versions are looked into.
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