Blast injures ten in St Petersburg shop, 50 evacuated

Blast injures ten in St Petersburg shop, 50 evacuated
# 27 December 2017 19:10 (UTC +04:00)

Police, bomb-disposal experts and rescuers have arrived at the scene, APA reports quoting sputniknews.

An emergency services' source told Sputnik that 10 people have been injured as a result of "an explosion of an unidentified device" in a shop in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, which has prompted the evacuation of at least 50 people.

According to the Russian Investigative Committee, preliminary data shows that a device stuffed with damage agents is likely to be the cause for the explosion.

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