Breaking… The blast ripped through the store on the ground floor of the Gigant Hall shopping complex, which is traditionally packed with shoppers in the days before the New Year celebrations.
BREAKING: Explosion injures several people as police lock down city centre
AN explosion inside a busy St Petersburg supermarket has injured 10 people and resulted in dozens more being evacuated from the area.
By Harvey Gavin, The Express, Dec 27, 2017
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At least four people have been hospitalised with injuries of “variable servity” following the blast in the Russian city this evening.
Nobody was killed in the explosion, but local media has reported up to six more people are being treated at the scene.
The Sputnik news agency has reported the Russian Investigative Committee as saying initial data shows a device stuffed with shrapnel was the likely cause of the explosion.
A statement from the committee said: “According to the preliminary assessment by explosives experts, an improvised explosive device, equivalent to 200 grams of TNT, exploded in St. Petersburg.
“The device was filled with projectiles.”
Russian media service RT has reported officials are treating the incident as a “potential mass homicide attempt”.
An explosion in a busy St Petersburg supermarket has injured 10 peopleSources are quoted as telling local media the explosion took place in a storage locker inside the supermarket.
The blast ripped through the store on the ground floor of the ground floor Gigant Hall shopping complex, which is traditionally packed with shoppers in the days before the New Year celebrations.
An official from the Emergencies Ministry told Russian news agency TASS: “There was a bang. Emergency personnel are already on the scene.
“The evacuation has been completed, and there was no fire.”
Emergency services are still on the scene after the blast earlier this evening An image posted by Russian media purports to show the damage inside the store
A statement from company which owns the store told Sputnik: ”At the moment the store is closed, buyers and staff have been evacuated.
“Special services are working at the scene.
“There is no more detailed information at the moment.”
An image posted by Russian media purports to show the damage inside the store
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Must be that religion of peace yet again. They are just so peaceful, are they not?
come on now we all know it was the ….uh…..er….russians.
They have Gigant and we have Kroger or Safeway
Don’t ever think those pissful scums won’t do the same thing here !!
Except in Russia,the terrorists only could afford to buy 200G of TNT.
After Boris Badenov’s wife Natasha gave Trump a golden shower, she planted the bomb. It makes as much sense as the witch hunt against the President as regards Russia electing him.
Russia Like America is learning appeasing muslims won’t save their ass !
And the Leftists pro-jihadi Pope is now aiding jihadis by calling for more christian killing jihadi immigrants http://tinyurl.com/popeofwolves
……..Like a shepherd who wants his flock to stop protesting against jihadi wolves attacking them and be open hearted to let the wolves come in !
Muslims regard appeasement of them as weakness and move to humiliate the appeaser.
The Most Pissful Group of Scums In The Whole Damn Universe — The Moslems
Of course!
Politicians – “We don’t know the cause yet, but we know this had NOTHING to do with Islam”.
of course not — isn’t that the first statement they always put out ?? when it is very obvious just who did it ,
naw this is russia were talking about. putin famously described the muslims in their nation as needing russian while russia doesn’t need muslims.
That was a good speech that Putin gave about Muslims needing Russia and not the other way around. But you can’t forget that Putin is a POLITICIAN and one of the best in the world. So as a politician, he will say one thing to one audience but another thing to another audience. As the 20+ Million Muslim population of Russia GROWS and GROWS….Putin keeps helping the Muslims build one mosque after another in Russia, despite most Russians being against this. In these videos you can see how Putin and the Moscow authorities are praising a new HUGE mosque in MOSCOW (2015)….because “Russian Muslims are good Muslims and are against terrorism” lol
HUGE mosque opens in Moscow and Putin & Muslims LOVE IT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-fKly9Odqk
Putin/Moscow Inaugurates Largest Mosque in Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPI-5ACQ4Tg&t=92s
The muslum pig and piglet Erdogan and Abbas were invited to consecrate the mosquetrosity in Moscow along w/Putin. Putin can’t be trusted.
Just because someone yells allahu akbar during the commission of a crime does not mean the perp is Moooooslime right?
Didn’t know there was a large Amish community in St. Petersburg. Just the liberal’s army at work.
A people that could conceive the circular saw need to be watched , closely .
yup
Round up the usual suspects then issue a statement that they had “mental health issues” and were “known to police”.
Two hundred pound gelts , which will have a good resale value .
The day will come when Russia and the United States will be allies.
genuine friendship and trade with all nations, entangling alliances with none… a famous guy. the powers that be need a constant boogie man, and it must be white and male and christian and straight, so the russians are the natural boogie man i speak of. “they” dont want us to be friends.
Russia , China and America will be the only nations able to take the fight to the islamites , not only guarding their borders .
That is true a statement
Russia is not our enemy,
The religion of peace is at it again.
Well, whatever it is, you won’t hear what happens next. Not in Russia, anyway. 🙂
Will the Russian government engage in the same lies and cover-ups as the dying atheist West? Will we be hearing/reading/seeing the cries of nothing to do with islum? Or that the f’ing muslum perps are “perverting” a “great” faith?
Sadly, the Russian government response will probably be the former. There are over 20 million Muslims in Russia and GROWING and hundreds if not thousands of mosques have been opened in Russia since Putin took power in 2000. Now that might not be such a bad thing in Russia if this was in the outer regions of Russia since Russia is a huge nation. But there are TONS of Muslims coming into major Russian cities including MOSCOW. According to this video report….Putin is being nice to “moderate to Muslims” to “seek their help against the radical Muslims”…so he is letting them build mosques all over Russia including the 2015 HUGE mosque in MOSCOW. In my opinion, he is gambling and not making a wise choice since virtually all Muslims, no matter their geographical location…are potential walking time bombs.
The Russian people in general are an intelligent and wise people…and as like their fellow Slavs across Europe…they do NOT want more Muslims among them. So the question is, IS Putin listening to them? Sadly, it appears he isn’t.
🙁
(2015) Putin helps Muslims open largest Mosque in Europe in MOSCOW…despite most Russians being against it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwY3J6skADU
(2011) Moscow Russians don’t want more Mosques and Muslims….but Russian Muslims don’t care and DEMAND MORE MOSQUES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwJM6NERrh8
No way…Russia has been fighting terrorists for years…Chechen (muslim) terrorists have been involved for years.
Some day, an inbred, neanderthal, suicide-bomb asshole is going to kill the wrong world leader’s grandchild, and Mecca is going to get vaporized.
Margaret Thatcher’s favorite song in 1982 was ‘Dont FALK With Me Argentina!”
(Remember the Falkland War?)
Now I wonder which song will Russia’s No. 1 in the hit parade this year regarding muslim terrorists…
I am not particularly a fan of Putin but I do give him credit for the fact that he’s NOT a wimp like most western “leaders”!
Putin told his security services to “liquidate” the bandits in the future.
No beta soy boy there…