Russia Calls Rail Explosion Terrorist Attack

Several government officials were killed in a recent explosion on a train in Russia. There are concerns that Chechen rebels may be escalating attacks, again.

Russia was tonight coming to terms with its most deadly terrorist attack in years after investigators confirmed that a powerful improvised bomb caused Friday's devastating train crash in which at least 26 people, including several top government officials, were killed.

The head of Russia's FSB counter-terrorism agency, Alexander Bortnikov, said the bomb, hidden on the railway line between Moscow and St Petersburg, contained the equivalent of 7kg (15.4lb) of TNT. Officers had found "elements of an explosive device", he said.

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[Lala]

I read earlier somewhere that there was a secondary explosion that hit the first responders.