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Russian officials: train derailment was terror attack (Extra)
Nov 28, 2009, 12:24 GMT
Moscow - Russian investigators Saturday declared that the derailment of the Neva Express train late Friday was a terror attack.
The Interfax agency cited a security agency spokesman, Vladimir Markin, as saying that fragments as well as a crater-shaped hole of more than a meter depth which indicated a bomb.
The domestic secret service FSB estimated that the home-made explosive device had the power of 7 kilograms of TNT.
Few other details were given as meanwhile FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov was meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.
Earlier reports said at least 30 persons had been killed and some 100 injured in the derailment of the train on the route between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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