In the hour on bbc news. A vote of confidence, mark sampson names his england squad for the euros, three and half months before the start of the tournament. A very good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. An explosion on the Underground System in St Petersburg is reported to have killed ten people and injured as many as 50 more. The explosion happened in the early afternoon local time, and hit a train that was travelling between two stations. Russias National Anti terrorist Committee Said an explosive device at a third station was later found and made safe. The russian Prime Minister called the metro blast an Act Of Terror, and President Putin said all scenarios were being investigated. Heres our correspondent sarah rainsford. Are there any children, a woman shouts, as passengers rushed to the wreckage of a train. The blast was just down the line. This is the immediate scene of panic. Mobile phone footage from another passing train shows victims still lying on the platform. It
In an explosion on the Underground System in St Petersburg. The explosion happened between two stations Sennaya Plos Chad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations. Domi tilla sagra moso, lecturer in security and development domitilla sagramoso, lecturer in security and development at Kings College london, talked to me about who might be behind these attacks. Of course it is a bit early, but we can think of potential groups or individuals who could be behind these attacks. The first who come to mind are of course, fighters, jihadists from the north caucasus. They have been running a very long insurgency, a jihadist insurgency against local authorities and the russian state for over a decade. Although they have been severely weakened we cannot exclude that they might be involved in some form of attack. Many of those leaders in these insurgencies throughout the region have sworn allegiance to assess, and many to isis. Many have moved to fight with Islamic State and other groups in iraq. The
In an explosion on the Underground System in St Petersburg. The explosion happened between two stations Sennaya Plos Chad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations. Domi tilla sagra moso, lecturer in security and development domitilla sagramoso, lecturer in security and development at Kings College london, talked to me about who might be behind these attacks. Of course it is a bit early, but we can think of potential groups or individuals who could be behind these attacks. The first who come to mind are of course, fighters, jihadists from the north caucasus. They have been running a very long insurgency, a jihadist insurgency against local authorities and the russian state for over a decade. Although they have been severely weakened we cannot exclude that they might be involved in some form of attack. Many of those leaders in these insurgencies throughout the region have sworn allegiance to assess, and many to isis. Many have moved to fight with Islamic State and other groups in iraq. The