Four people were killed and 10 injured in an explosion at a railway station in southern Russia Sunday, the country’s emergency ministry said.
The Federal Security Services are at the scene but no confirmation on cause of explosion yet.
10 dead, six injured as blast rips through railway station in central Russia.
At least ten people were killed and three others wounded in a blast at a railway station in the city of Volgograd, central Russia, according to police. Law enforcement sources, say dozens have sustained injuries.
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“At 12.45 we got informed that a boom or a blast was heard in the building of the railway station, Volgograd-1. Smoke was reported,” Svetlana Smolyaninova, police spokesperson, said according to RIA Novosti. The police have officially confirmed ten deaths.
"We have confirmation now that the number of dead has risen to 10 people, with a further three receiving injuries," a police spokesman told the agency.
Other reports suggest that several dozens sustained injuries in the blast.
“Following more detailed reports, ten people have died and several doxens others have received injuries,” Interfax’s source said, adding that “the blast happened near the metal detectors located at the entrance to the station.”
One witness recounted to Interfax that he saw "two bodies lying in front of the entrance, pieces of shattered glass are everywhere, there's a ton of rubble there." He added that "apparently, the explosion led to a fire, which the firefighters quickly put out."
There are multiple ambulances rushing to the scene, witnesses at the scene say. The wounded are being loaded onto stretchers as the evacuation of the building continues.
At present, the building has been sealed. The cause of the explosion has not yet been reported.
But the city saw a terrorist attack just in October, when a suicide bomber blew herself up in a bus, killing six people and injuring more than 30 others.
On Friday, a car bomb killed three people in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk.
