Peak hour blast at Minsk subway kills 11,
100 injured
Associated PressPosted: Tue Apr 12 2011, 02:51 hrsMinsk:=============================================================
An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour Monday, killing eleven people and wounding 100 others, officials said.
Heavily wounded people were being carried out of the Oktyabrskaya subway station, including one person with missing legs.
Several witnesses said the explosion hit just as passengers were stepping off a train about 6 pm local time. The Oktyabrskaya station, where Minsk’s two subway lines intersect, was crowded with transferring passengers at the end of the work day.
The station is within 100 meters of the residence of President Alexander Lukashenko. There was no immediate indication of whether the blast a terrorist attack.
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Svetlana Borovskaya said that eleven people were killed and 100 wounded. One witness, Alexei Kiklevich, said at least part of the station’s ceiling collapsed after the explosion. Political tensions have been rising in Belarus since December, when a massive protest against a disputed presidential election sparked a harsh crackdown by police.
(source:indianexpress.com)
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