At least 14 dead in suicide bombing at train station in Russia

[Dusty Bake Activate]

By Albina Kovalyova, Producer, NBC

NewsMOSCOW — At least 14 people were killed in a terror attack by a suspected female suicide bomber at a railway station in Russia Sunday, officials said — the second deadly attack in three days as the country prepares to host the Winter Olympics.

The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the explosion, at the central railway station in the city of Volgograd, was an act of terror and that a criminal investigation has been launched.

Video footage shown showed a massive orange fireball filling the grand hall, sending smoke billowing out through shattered windows.

"People were lying on the ground, screaming and calling for help," witness Alexander Koblyakov told Rossiya-24 TV. "I helped carry out a police officer whose head and face were covered in blood. He couldn't speak.

"The attack, which happened at about 1 p.m. local time (4 a.m. ET), heightens concern about terrorism ahead of February's Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, and following similar bombings.On Friday, a car bomb killed three people in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk, 170 miles east of Sochi. In October, another female suicide bomber was blamed for a bus explosion in Volgograd that killed five people.

President Vladimir Putin ordered law enforcement agencies to take all necessary precautions to ensure security, his spokesmanThe National Anti-Terrorist Committee said preliminary findings after Sunday's blast showed that the suspect was female, but federal security services were still investigating.

"Today at around 1300 (1 p.m.) an unconfirmed explosive device was detonated in front of the metal detector at the entrance to the train station in Volgograd,” the Committee said on its website. “The preliminary findings show that it was activated by a female suicide bomber."Andrei Soldatov, a Russian security analyst and investigative journalist, said the attack might have been an attempt to distract authorities from keeping Sochi safe.

“There is no reason to hit Volgograd,” he told NBC News. “Now the authorities have to pay extra attention to Volgograd, they will have to split their attention.

“This tactic worked before. Prior to the Beslan school siege there were two explosions of planes and one in the Moscow metro - it was done especially to distract attention, so the terrorists could prepare the big act.”While Russian Investigative Committee Representative Vladimir Markin told state news agency Interfax that 13 were dead.

Other reports in Russian media said that as many as 18 were killed, and at least 50 injured.

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[2Quik4UHoes]

Putin bout to get to shootin....

 

[KeysT]

I dont understand what their end goal was...

 

[88m3]

Wow. I hate seeing things like this happen in a Democracy.

 

[ill]

Pootie Poot is about to get a free get out of jail card to do whatever he wants with the extremists.

 

[thekingsmen]

I dont understand what their end goal was...

The goal is to send a message to Russia about it's support in Syria, Snowden and it's support to the Ukraine present regime that won't be tolerated.

 

[88m3]

Pootie Poot is about to get a free get out of jail card to do whatever he wants with the extremists.

whenever things get politically difficult there, he has some of his buddies take out an apartment block or train station.

 

[keepemup]

whenever things get politically difficult there, he has some of his buddies take out an apartment block or train station.

The stuff of fantasy.

 

[ill]

whenever things get politically difficult there, he has some of his buddies take out an apartment block or train station.

He's been getting soft lately letting the p*ssy girls and the oligarch off the hook. It could all very well be a ploy to gain more public support which in turn he'll use now with the terror attacks to militarize the former Soviet bloc.

 

[keepemup]

The goal is to send a message to Russia about it's support in Syria, Snowden and it's support to the Ukraine present regime that won't be tolerated.

Were you complicit in this bombing?

 

[ill]

The goal is to send a message to Russia about it's support in Syria, Snowden and it's support to the Ukraine present regime that won't be tolerated.

So you're implying it was Western powers that attacked?

 

[thekingsmen]

Were you complicit in this bombing?

 

[88m3]

The stuff of fantasy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I dont understand what their end goal was...

It was their plan all along to conduct terrorist activities during the buildup for the Winter Games. I'm sure they'll be more ambitious when the games start.

He's been getting soft lately letting the p*ssy girls and the oligarch off the hook. It could all very well be a ploy to gain more public support which in turn he'll use now with the terror attacks to militarize the former Soviet bloc.

lol, he let all them people out cuz damn near the whole world bout to be there for the winter games. Funny how no one discusses America's political prisoners.

 

[ill]

It was their plan all along to conduct terrorist activities during the buildup for the Winter Games. I'm sure they'll be more ambitious when the games start.



lol, he let all them people out cuz damn near the whole world bout to be there for the winter games. Funny how no one discusses America's political prisoners.

Putin could careless about what the world thinks of him or Russia. Him releasing those people has far deeper implications than worrying about judgement from the rest of the world.