RUSSIA DETAINS 2 FOR BOMBING OF ST. PETERSBURG TRAIN STATION

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Terrorist attack on St Petersburg, Moscow

Admin l Saturday, April 08, 201

ST. PETERSBURG,Moscow, Russia – Two men suspected to be behind last week’s bombing of St. Petersburg train station have been detained by the Russian authority.





At least 14 people were killed and 50 others injured when the terrorists attacked the subway station.
The Basmanny District Court ordered the detention of Sodik Ortikov, 38, a citizen of Tajikistan living in the Moscow Region, until June 3, while Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg detained a native of Uzbekistan Azamzhon Makhmudov, 23, for two months.

Ortikov has been detained for his alleged involvement in terrorist activities and illegally trafficking explosives. He entered a guilty plea.

The court held that the alleged suicide bomber Akbarzhon Dzhalilov made telephone calls to an unidentified person, who in turn was in contact with Ortikov.

In St. Petersburg investigator claimed that law enforcement officers found a homemade explosive device in apartment where suspect Makhmudov was living and that the bomb was similar in structure to that one that exploded at the station.

According to investigators, explosive device identical to one found at St. Petersburg’s Ploshad Vosstaniya metro station as well as handguns and ammunition were found at suspects’ places of residence.

Earlier, the Investigative Committee’s press-service announced that several suspects were arrested in relation to the blast in St. Petersburg metro: Seyfull Khakimov, Ibragibzhon Yermatov, Dilmurod Miudinov, Bakhram Yergashev, Azamzhon Makhmudov, Makhamadyusuf Mirzaalimov, Shokhista Karimova and Sodik Ortikov. Six people were arrested in St. Petersburg; two others were arrested in Moscow.

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