A second terror strike in the Russian city of Volgograd in less than 24 hours on Monday killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20.
A powerful blast occurred in a trolleybus around 8:30 am (local time) when people were going to work. First pictures posted online showed the trolleybus, which can carry up to 80 people, literally ripped apart and bodies strewn on the road.
Police sources suggested that the blast as a terror attack similar to the explosion staged by a suicide bomber 19 hours earlier at the main railway station of Volgograd. Sunday’s attack killed 17 people and wounded another 40.
A powerful blast occurred in a trolleybus around 8:30 am (local time) when people were going to work. First pictures posted online showed the trolleybus, which can carry up to 80 people, literally ripped apart and bodies strewn on the road.
Police sources suggested that the blast as a terror attack similar to the explosion staged by a suicide bomber 19 hours earlier at the main railway station of Volgograd. Sunday’s attack killed 17 people and wounded another 40.
Forensic experts and police officers at the site of a trolleybus explosion in Volgograd, Russia on Monday.
However, the National Anti-Terror Committee said Monday’s explosion was caused by a bomb planted under a seat in the middle of the trolleybus.
According to Deputy Governor of Volgograd, 15 trolleybus passengers were killed on the spot and 23 were injured.
Two months ago a female bomber blew herself in a bus in Volgograd, killing seven people.
The latest blasts in Volgograd are the worst in Russia since a suicide bomber killed 37 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport in January 2011.
The surge in terror attacks comes a little over month ahead of Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus and about 700 kilometres southwest of Volgograd.
However, the National Anti-Terror Committee said Monday’s explosion was caused by a bomb planted under a seat in the middle of the trolleybus.
According to Deputy Governor of Volgograd, 15 trolleybus passengers were killed on the spot and 23 were injured.
Two months ago a female bomber blew herself in a bus in Volgograd, killing seven people.
The latest blasts in Volgograd are the worst in Russia since a suicide bomber killed 37 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport in January 2011.
The surge in terror attacks comes a little over month ahead of Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus and about 700 kilometres southwest of Volgograd.
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