Russia's President Vladimir Putin will personally control investigation.
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Putin Takes Explosion Investigation Under Control
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will personally supervise the probe into railway terror action, as a result of which Neva Express got off the rails. The president called FSB Chief Nikolay Patrushev to hear his report on progress in investigation, RIA Novosti announced with reference to Putin’s briefer Alexey Gromov.
Led by Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Bastrykin, who heads the Investigating Committee, a taskforce of detectives and prosecutors left for the Novgorod region to examine the place of explosion.
A high-speed train, Neva Express, got off the rails at 9:40 p.m. MSK Monday in the Novgorod region when traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The accident was caused by explosion of a self-made bomb put under the railway bed. Roughly 60 suffered as a result of the crash. Of them, from six to 19 are in the hospitals now, according to difference sources.
The epicenter was under the second section of locomotive. The type of explosive hasn’t been disclosed for the sake of investigation, Interfax reported. That terror action had been thoroughly planned, according to investigators.
The leads set forth an individual action of terror, involvement of some ultra-right extremist organizations and the Caucasus trace; the latter, however, isn’t particularly favored by detectives.
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