Russia: Explosion in St. Petersburg supermarket injures at least 4

[melm00se]

Source: CBS

MOSCOW -- Russian news reports say at least four people have been injured by an explosion at a supermarket in St. Petersburg.

Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman with the Investigative Committee of Russia, said a device containing the equivalent of 200 grams of TNT went off on Wednesday. Russian news agencies said the blast occurred at a storage area for customers' bags.

No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion at the market in the city's northwest Kalininsky district.

The Investigative Committee has sent experts to look into the explosion.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/st-petersburg-supermarket-explosion-russia/

[OliverQ]

1. Interesting after the big headline last week that our Intel helped

Russia stop a terrorist attack there.

[chowder66]

2. That's what I was thinking. Very interesting. nt

[pecosbob]

3. Putin must be worried about his standing at home

if he's out staging terrorist incidents again.

[truthisfreedom]

4. Half a pound of tnt

[haele]

5. Ah, there's an election coming up soon, right Vlad?

I suspect there's a flag increasingly made of napkins ready to be vigorously waived about to try and influence the outcome again.

Isn't St. Petersburg one of the more liberal and/or progressive cities in Russia?

Haele