Russia, attack in the St. Petersburg metro: 14 dead, dozens injured, including children

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03 April 2017Russian Attorney General speaks of a "terrorist attack" after the explosion that took place today in the St. Petersburg subway. 14 would be dead. This was reported by the information site Fontanka.ru which first broke the news this morning. According to sources cited by the newspaper at least 11 bodies are subjected to an autopsy. Two other people are reported to have died at Mariinsky hospital. A woman, the 14th victim, allegedly died while in an ambulance to the nearest hospital. Dozens were injured, some seriously. Among the people involved there are also children, but the number or identity is not yet known. From tomorrow city mourning for three days.

The Farnesina Crisis Unit is working with the consulate to see if compatriots are involved. "We heard from the Italian consul in St. Petersburg and he told us that at the moment there would be no Italians involved in the explosions", they report to 'La vita live', broadcast on Rai1.

He presented himself to the authorities and declared that the man whose image had been disseminated by the Russian media as that of an alleged person responsible for the explosion in the St. Petersburg subway was unrelated to the facts. This was announced by the Interfax agency, citing its own source. The man appeared in some still images, which the media described as coming from surveillance cameras, and appeared middle-aged, with a dark beard, dressed in black and with a hat of the same color.

In the St. Petersburg subway there were not two explosions, as originally thought, but only one, which occurred between two stops, i.e. between

. This was clarified by Reuters, a source of the Russian emergency services. "There was only one explosion between the stations as the train arrived at the Technology Institute station from Sennaya Ploshchad," the source explained.

The explosion in the St. Petersburg subway was allegedly caused by an explosive device hidden in one of the wagons. The bomb contained 2-300 grams of TNT and bullet fragments to make it even more lethal. The anti-terrorism committee confirmed that another bomb was discovered and defused in the subway station of "Ploshad Vosstaniya".

On social networks, many users immediately posted several photos showing smoke in the subway and the damaged carriage of a train.

Photos also emerged showing several people on the ground near the wagon.

People were evacuated from the affected area immediately.

The entire metro network was closed.

Dozens of ambulances on the spot.

В результате террактов в метро Санкт-Петербурга погибло 10 человек.

2-й взрыв произошел на станции метро Сенная ... pic.twitter.com/GktN4NiYh4

- Захар Есин (@sipqex) April 3, 2017

Today Russian President Vladimir Putin was in St. Petersburg for a media forum. Russian media note that the explosion occurred 15 minutes before the end of the forum in which the head of state was participating. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said Putin was informed of the incident.

"All the possible matrices of the explosion are being examined, from the terrorist act to the accident to the criminal action," the Russian president said today. The head of state discussed the explosions with the top management of the FSB, the federal security services. "The causes are not clear, so it is too early to talk about them now. It will be the investigation that will determine them", said Putin on the sidelines of his meeting in Strelna, not far from St. Petersburg, with the President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko.

"I learned with consternation the news of the explosion that has just caused victims and numerous injuries among the passengers of the St. Petersburg metro. I am following the developments of this tragic event with great apprehension and I wish to extend my heartfelt to you and to my friend the Russian people. condolences of all Italians and my personal one. Italy clings to the families of those who have lost their lives and to the wounded, of whom we wish a speedy recovery. Waiting to meet you in Moscow, I take this opportunity to renew them the most heartfelt condolences and expressions of sincere friendship for his country ". This was written by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in a message sent to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.

#sanpietroburgo Dismayed by the attack on the Metro.

Solidarity with the families of the victims.

Italy close to the Russian government and people

- Paolo Gentiloni (@PaoloGentiloni) April 3, 2017

The White House "condemns the attack in St. Petersburg", in Russia, where at least 10 people are killed.

Thus the spokesman for President Donald Trump, Sean Spicer, during the daily briefing with reporters.

"The

world must be united to fight violence in all forms," ​​said Spicer, expressing the condolences of the American administration for the families of the victims of St. Petersburg

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expressed his closeness to the people affected by the explosion in the St. Petersburg metro.

"Deep condolences for the people affected by the explosion of the #SaintPetersburg metro, their loved ones and the Russian people," he wrote on Twitter.

JUST IN: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on St. Petersburg blast https://t.co/bKOYIcAKge https://t.co/gBjSifUyeQ

- CNN (@CNN) April 3, 2017

In recent years, Russia has been the target of numerous attacks by Chechen militants: in March 2010 at least 38 people died in the attack of two female kamikaze in the Moscow metro.

In 2004, over 330 people, more than half of them children, died in the Beslan school massacre.

In 2002 the police raided a Moscow theater to end the kidnapping of spectators and the final toll was 120 hostages killed.

When he was prime minister, in 1999, he launched a campaign against Islamic separatists in Chechnya and as president he continued to fight them.