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| Russia attack: Loud explosion in St Petersburg residential building near where police raids uncovered explosives | Russia attack: Loud explosion in St Petersburg residential building near where police raids uncovered explosives |
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| A loud explosion has been heard in a residential building close to the site in St Petersburg where explosives were found earlier in the day. | A loud explosion has been heard in a residential building close to the site in St Petersburg where explosives were found earlier in the day. |
| No one was hurt in the explosion but a vehicle was damaged by falling masonry, news agency RIA reported, citing a source in Russia's emergencies ministry. | No one was hurt in the explosion but a vehicle was damaged by falling masonry, news agency RIA reported, citing a source in Russia's emergencies ministry. |
| Residents were evacuated from a nearby building earlier after police raids searching for accomplices in a terror attack that killed 14 people found an unexploded bomb similar to the one used in the attack. | |
| The device was found inside a flat raided in the early hours in the city’s Tovarichesky Prospekt district. | |
| Local media said materials used in the explosive device matched those used by militants in Syria. | |
| Earlier, the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency, said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies its experts defused a self-made explosive device at the apartment. | |
| “We were told: the house is mined, get out quickly,” one woman, who only gave her name as Tatiana and lives in the building, told Reuters. | |
| Another resident, who gave his name only as Anatoly, said he had seen police detain four young men occupying an eighth floor flat next door. | |
| “An explosive device found in the flat has been made safe,” local administration head Konstantin Serov said. | |
| “Several suspects have been arrested; they didn't resist and there's now no threat to local people.” | |
| Russian security agents have arrested three people suspected of links to the suicide bomber who attacked the St Petersburg metro earlier this week. | |
| The Investigative Committee said the suspects are residents of the former Soviet Central Asia region like the bomber, 22-year-old Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, a native of Kyrgyzstan. | |
| No one has claimed responsibility for Monday's subway bombing, but Russian trains and planes long have been targeted by bombings by Islamist militants. | |
| An unidentified law enforcement official told the Tass news agency that investigators were checking information that Dzhalilov may have trained with IS in Syria. | |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin has said between 5,000 and 7,000 people from Russia and other former Soviet republics were fighting alongside Isis and other militants in Syria. | |
| He has named the Iis threat as one of the reasons behind Russia's military campaign in Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. |