Three suspects arrested after Russian train attack: media reports

Aug 17, 2007, 8:43 GMT

Moscow - Russian investigators have arrested three suspects following the bomb attack earlier this week on the Nevsky Express train travelling between the Russian capital Moscow and St Petersburg, Interfax news agency reported Thursday.

'The three were arrested after a hot tip,' Interfax cited an unnamed source as saying.

Other reports have identified the suspects as two Chechens and one Russian.

The attack on Monday derailed the express train and left 60 people with injuries.

The most recent official statement has said that investigations are concentrating on extremist nationalists, but detectives have not ruled out involvement by Chechen terrorists.

The explosion was caused by a home-made and remote-controlled bomb near Veliky Novgorod, some 500 kilometres north of Moscow.

Chechen underground fighters and allied extremists from the Caucasus region have been the main culprits behind attacks on civilian targets in Russia in the recent past.