'Suicide bomber' hits Russia's Volgograd train station
A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people at a Russian train station on Sunday in the country’s worst terrorist attack for nearly four years, prompting Vladimir Putin to order a tightening of security at transport hubs ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in February.
At least 40 others were injured when the attacker detonated an explosive device at the entrance to the main railway station.
Confusion swirled about the identity of the attacker after security services told state news agency Interfax that the bomber
“was a man who carried explosives into the station in a rucksack”, and who had since been identified. However Russia’s top investigative body had earlier said that the attacker was a woman who detonated a device when a policeman challenged her at a metal detector at the station’s entrance. The explosion of the device, said to be equivalent to 10 kilogrammes of TNT, blasted the building’s heavy metal gates off their hinges and caused carnage in the queue of passengers waiting to enter.
Governor of Volgograd Region has declared three days of official mourning from January 1 to 3.
When is this mess gonna end?
to the dead. This is awful.