Suspect in Russian metro blast 'identified' as death toll rises

A suicide bomber from Kyrgyzstan was behind yesterday's explosion in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, security services in the Central Asian country said.


The death toll from yesterday's blast on board a metro train in St Petersburg has risen from 11 to 14, Russia's health minister has said. Forty-nine people are still being treated in hospital.

A spokesman for Kyrgyzstan security service identified yesterday's suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, born in the city of Osh in 1995. He provided no other details.

Kyrgyzstan, a predominantly Muslim Central Asian nation of six million, is Russia's close political ally and hosts a Russian military airbase.

Russia's Investigative Committee said it was probing an "act of terror" over the blast in the country's second city yesterday afternoon, but added it would look into all other possible causes of the blast.
  [rte.ie]
4/4/17
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