Officials: St. Petersburg subway blast was suicide attack
Russian police hunt possible accomplices of suicide bomber
By IRINA TITOVA and NATALIYA VASILYEVA, Associated Press
Published: April 4, 2017, 9:26am
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips Tuesday with the first major terrorist attack in Russia’s second-largest city since the Soviet collapse.
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