Second Bomb Blast At Russian Train Crash Site
Source: SKY
The less powerful bomb is not thought to have injured anyone, the head of Russia's state railway operator said.
The train was originally derailed by a bomb equivalent to 7kg (15lb) of TNT, the head of Russia's domestic intelligence service told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Several carriages of the Nevsky Express travelling from Moscow to St Petersburg were sent off the tracks near the town of Bologoye, 200 miles from Moscow.
"Two wagons were completely overturned... several people were completely crushed under the metal. I heard screams, moaning," police officer Andrei Abramenko, who was travelling on the train, said.
A unnamed source in Moscow's law enforcement agencies has been quoted as saying: "A one-metre-diameter hole has been found next to the railway track."
The train was carrying 661 passengers in 13 carriages and four of them were damaged, Russian railways said.
Sky News Moscow correspondent Amanda Walker said a mobile field hospital was being flown to the area, near Bologoye.
"That gives you an idea of the scale of the operation," she said.
Walker said: "Two years ago, in August 2007, a different train but the same service was the victim of a terror attack when about 60 people were injured. It was believed to be connected to Chechen separatists."
Russian prosecutors said they believed ex-soldier Pavel Kosolapov, a former associate of the late Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, was the mastermind behind that blast.
Kosolapov is still on the run.
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5:40pm UK, Saturday November 28, 2009
A second bomb has gone off at the site where an explosive earlier sent a luxury express train careering off the tracks in Russia killing dozens of people.
The train was originally derailed by a bomb equivalent to 7kg (15lb) of TNT, the head of Russia's domestic intelligence service told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Several carriages of the Nevsky Express travelling from Moscow to St Petersburg were sent off the tracks near the town of Bologoye, 200 miles from Moscow.
"Two wagons were completely overturned... several people were completely crushed under the metal. I heard screams, moaning," police officer Andrei Abramenko, who was travelling on the train, said.
A unnamed source in Moscow's law enforcement agencies has been quoted as saying: "A one-metre-diameter hole has been found next to the railway track."
A man injured the crash arrives at Moskovsky train station in St Petersburg
Russia's Health Minister Tatyana Golikova has said 39 people have been killed, 18 are missing and more than 90 are being treated in hospital. But death toll is still unclear.The train was carrying 661 passengers in 13 carriages and four of them were damaged, Russian railways said.
Sky News Moscow correspondent Amanda Walker said a mobile field hospital was being flown to the area, near Bologoye.
"That gives you an idea of the scale of the operation," she said.
Workers gather to remove one of the carriages
The derailment is Russia's worst train accident for several years and may raise fears of a surge in attacks by rebels from the North Caucasus.Walker said: "Two years ago, in August 2007, a different train but the same service was the victim of a terror attack when about 60 people were injured. It was believed to be connected to Chechen separatists."
Russian prosecutors said they believed ex-soldier Pavel Kosolapov, a former associate of the late Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, was the mastermind behind that blast.
Kosolapov is still on the run.
View Bologoye, Russia in a larger map
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