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| Explosive device disarmed in St. Petersburg apartment building – city official | |
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| An explosive device has been defused in a residential building in St. Petersburg, city authorities told Russian media. | An explosive device has been defused in a residential building in St. Petersburg, city authorities told Russian media. |
| “An explosive device has been located and disarmed,” Konstantin Serov, head of the administration of the district where the device was located, told TASS. | |
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| Earlier Russian media reported that a nine-story residential building in St. Petersburg had been evacuated after a suspicious object was found in one of the apartments. | |
| All residents of the building were brought to safety and sheltered in a nearby kindergarten, TASS added. | |
| Investigators are still working in the building, Serov added. | |
| Local residents told Fontanka.ru news portal that people from Central Asia were renting the apartment where the police made their search. | |
| According to the news portal, at least three men were seen being escorted by police in handcuffs. | |
| According to Serov, the owners of the apartment were absent when the searches were conducted. The men who were found there will be investigated by police, he added. | |
| When asked for comment by Ruptly, the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee said it could not confirm that the discovered object was indeed an explosive device. It did confirm that operatives are working at the scene. | |
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| Several people have been detained after an explosive device was found in the building, RIA Novosti reported, citing citing Serov. | |
| St. Petersburg was shaken by a fatal explosion on Monday when an improvised bomb went off in subway train carriage between Tekhnologichesky Institut and Sennaya Ploshchad stations. Another bomb disguised as a fire extinguisher was defused by a bomb squad at Ploshchad Vosstaniya station. | |
| The suspect was later identified as the 22-year old Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, a Russian citizen of Kyrgyz origin. Russia’s State Investigative Committee is treating the incident as a terrorist attack. |