Twin blasts at St Petersburg metro stations: 10 dead, over 50 injured
Moscow : At least 10 people were killed and over 50 were injured after twin powerful blasts tore through a metro train in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Monday, the media reported.
RT Online quoted Transit Systems management as saying that evacuation of passengers was on after the explosions at the Sennaya Square station. TASS quoted emergency services as saying that 10 people had been killed.
The door of a train coach was blown off by the impact of the explosions. Russian President Vladimir Putin said law enforcement agencies were trying to determine the circumstances of the incident.
Several videos have also started rolling on the social media. Following are some of them
#WATCH Scene from the blast site at Tekhnologicheskiy Institut metro station in St Petersburg, Russia; 10 killed and 50 injured. pic.twitter.com/UazXjcVJKM
— ANI (@ANI) April 3, 2017
#UPDATE: Russian media says 50 injured in St. Petersburg metro explosion, 10 killed. pic.twitter.com/fNxJGeGyLS
— ANI (@ANI) April 3, 2017
