Moscow, 4 Apr (ZXS) -- The latest news from the Russian Ministry of Health on 2 April said that the explosion in a café in St. Petersburg, Russia, on the same day, killed one person and the number of injured people has risen to 2.
According to the Russian Ministry of Health, 24 people were sent to the hospital after the explosion, during which 6 more people sought medical treatment on their own. Experts assessed the injured as serious and the remaining 6 as moderate or mild. St. Petersburg Mayor Begolov said that the city's hospital is providing all necessary assistance to the wounded.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs released information earlier in the same day that at 18:13 on the same day, the police of the Vasilievsky district of St. Petersburg received an alarm that an explosion occurred in a café located at No. 25 Yanhe Street in the city's university. One person was killed by war correspondent Vladlen Tartarsky; Another 1 people were injured and the injured are being treated by medical personnel. The head of the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and a working group of experts have rushed to the scene of the incident. At present, the staff of the local police and emergency department in St. Petersburg are carrying out relevant work at the scene to confirm the cause of the explosion and the context of the incident.
TASS quoted a notification from Russian law enforcement as saying that the improvised explosive device that caused the explosion was hidden in a small statue given to Tartarsky, after which it exploded. The power of the explosive device exceeds 200 grams of TNT equivalent. At the time, Tartarsky was hosting an event at a café. At the time of the explosion, the glass windows of the café's façade were impacted and shattered and collapsed, but the building in which the café was located was not seriously damaged.
Interfax quoted sources as saying the suspect, a local woman born in 1997, had been detained. But the news has not yet been officially confirmed.
According to Russian media, Vladlen Tartarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) is a Donetsk war correspondent. After Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine, he "became famous in World War I" in the press. He reports and comments on the progress of the special military operation by video, and often makes relevant statements on social platforms.
At present, the Main Directorate of Investigation of St. Petersburg of the Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal investigation into the explosion. (End)