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Explosion injures train driver in St. Petersburg
Feb 2, 2010, 8:40 GMT
Moscow - A suspected terrorist bomb detonated on a platform of the Baltic Railway Station in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on Tuesday morning, severely injuring the driver of a passing train, the Interfax News Agency reported.
The explosion struck as the train was pulling past the platform, the agency said. The station has now been sealed off and the incident is being investigated by the internal security service FSB.
'We are acting on the assumption that it was a terrorist attack. We are assuming the worst,' investigator Anatoly Kvaschnin said.
In November a suspected bomb attack on an express train between Moscow and St. Petersburg killed some 27 people, and was thought to have been set by a terrorist group.
Tuesday's blast, which was caused by approximately 200 kilograms of explosive, destroyed around a metre of the station platform, police said.
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