Moscow – More than 30 people were injured in an explosion staged in a bus in the city of Volgograd, the southeast of the European part of Russia.
A shuttle bus exploded at 14:05 Moscow time (10:05 GMT) on Monday. The bus was carrying about 40 people, six of them were killed, and 37 people were injured and taken to the hospitals.
According to the information of the Russian Investigative Committee, the explosive device was detonated by a female suicide bomber from Dagestan, who entered the bus at a bus stop in hijab, and the explosion went off after that.
“According to preliminary reports as of 23:00 Moscow time (19:00 GMT) 43 casualties were reported, including six people were killed. Thirty people were taken to the hospitals and seven people received the outpatient aid,” the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The doctors of the all-Russian emergency medicine centre Zashchita and the emergency group Tsentrospas of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are treating the injured at the Volgograd clinics. - SAnews.gov.za-Itar-Tass
