Passengers and employees of two railway stations in Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg were evacuated over a bomb threat, the press service for the local transportation department said on Thursday.
At around 2:30 p.m. Moscow time [11:30 GMT] an unidentified person called the Oktyabrskaya railway information desk saying that both the Moskovsky and Finlyandsky railway stations were mined. All passengers and employees of both stations were evacuated.
"Both stations were checked," a spokeswoman from the transportation department said, adding "The information [on the bombs] was not confirmed."
On Monday, two deadly blasts hit the Moscow subway claiming at least 39 lives and injuring around 95 people. Two days later in the city of Kizlyar in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan another two blasts occurred killing 12 people and injuring another 20. Russian investigators said that these attacks were organized by terrorist groups "linked to the North Caucasus."
A box with wires and a note reading "bomb" was discovered in northern Moscow on Thursday. Police authorities determined the device was a dummy.
Terrorist attacks in large Russian cities are often accompanied by false bomb alerts to destabilize the situation throughout the country.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 1 (RIA Novosti)
