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2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing

2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing
Part of Terrorism in Russia and Islamic terrorism in Europe
Memorial of flowers at the metro station Tekhnologichesky Institut after terrorist attack
2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing (Central Saint Petersburg)
2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing (European Russia)
LocationOn a Saint Petersburg Metro train between Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Coordinates59°54′59″N 30°19′07″E / 59.91639°N 30.31861°E / 59.91639; 30.31861
Date3 April 2017 (2017-04-03)
14:40[1] (FET (UTC +3))
TargetCivilians
Attack type
Suicide bombing[2]
WeaponsNail bomb
Deaths16 (including the perpetrator)
Injured64[3]
PerpetratorImam Shamil Battalion[4]
AssailantsAkbarzhon Jalilov

On 3 April 2017, a terrorist attack using an explosive device took place on the Saint Petersburg Metro between Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations.[5] Eleven people (including the perpetrator) were initially reported to have died, and five more died later from their injuries, bringing the total to 15.[6][7][8][9][10]

At least 45 others were injured in the incident.[11][12] The explosive device was contained in a briefcase.[11] A second explosive device was found and defused at Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station.[9] The suspected perpetrator was named as Akbarzhon Jalilov, a Russian citizen who was an ethnic Uzbek born in Kyrgyzstan.[13]

  1. ^ "'Мы начали ехать, я увидел взорванный вагон': что писали очевидцы о взрыве в Петербурге" ['We started moving, I saw a blown up train car': what did eyewitnesses write about an explosion in Petersburg]. TASS. ТАСС информационное агентство. 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  2. ^ Denis Pinchuk. "Eleven killed in suspected suicide bombing on Russian metro train". Reuters. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Russia Bomber Is Identified, Officials Say, as Death Toll Rises". The New York Times. 4 April 2017. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017. In addition to killing 14, the blast on Monday wounded 64 others, Aleksandr Rzhanenkov, a St. Petersburg official, said at a news briefing.
  4. ^ "St Petersburg bombing: Group says al-Qaeda chief ordered attack". BBC News. 25 April 2017. Archived from the original on 29 March 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  5. ^ Youngman, Mark (6 April 2017). "Russia's domestic terrorism threat is serious, sophisticated and complex". The Conversation. The Conversation Trust (UK). Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017. The April 3 bombing on the St Petersburg metro was the highest-profile terror attack on Russian soil since a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport in January 2011.
  6. ^ "Число жертв теракта в Петербурге выросло до 14 человек [Number of fatalities of the terrorist act in Petersburg has grown to fourteen people". Meduza. Meduza. 4 April 2017. Archived from the original on 30 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017. В результате взрыва в метро Санкт-Петербурга погибли 14 человек, сообщила министр здравоохранения России Вероника Скворцова. [In the aftermath of explosion in the metro of Saint Petersburg 14 people have died, reported by the minister of health of Russia Veronika Skvortsova]
  7. ^ "Signs of terror attack in St. Petersburg subway blast obvious – Kremlin". TASS. Saint Petersburg. 4 April 2017. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2017. The Russian Investigative Committee has qualified the blast as a terrorist attack, but other versions are looked into.
  8. ^ MacFarquhar, Neil; Nechepureneko, Ivan (3 April 2017). "Explosion in St. Petersburg Metro Kills at Least 10". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  9. ^ a b "Взрыв в метро Санкт-Петербурга: погибли 10 человек" [Explosion in Metro St. Petersburg, killing 10 people] (in Russian). BBC Russia. 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  10. ^ "В петербургской больнице скончались двое пострадавших при взрыве в метро" [Two injured in the explosion in the subway died in the St. Petersburg hospital] (in Russian). RIA Novosti. Archived from the original on 24 November 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  11. ^ a b "St Petersburg metro explosions kill ten – media". BBC. 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  12. ^ "At least 10 people may have been killed by Russia metro blast: TASS". Reuters. 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  13. ^ "St Petersburg metro bombing suspect 'from Kyrgyzstan'". BBC News. 4 April 2017. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.

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