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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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A man lays flowers at a symbolic memorial outside the Tekhnologichesky Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A bomb blast tore through a subway train deep under Russia's second-largest city St. Petersburg Monday, killing several people and wounding many more in a chaotic scene that left victims sprawled on a smoky platform.
A man lays flowers at a symbolic memorial outside the Tekhnologichesky Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A bomb blast tore through a subway train deep under Russia's second-largest city St. Petersburg Monday, killing several people and wounding many more in a chaotic scene that left victims sprawled on a smoky platform. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) Photo Gallery

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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