People Lay Flowers to Commemorate the Victims of St. Pete Metro Blast
People Lay Flowers to Commemorate the Victims of St. Pete Metro Blast
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People from different parts of the world joined an action to pay tribute to the victims of Saint Petersburg metro explosion. 04.04.2017, Sputnik International
People from different parts of the world joined an action to pay tribute to the victims of Saint Petersburg metro explosion.
On April 3, 2017, a bomb exploded in a train of the Saint Petersburg subway. The blast killed at least 14 people, according to Russian Minister of Healthcare Veronika Skvortsova; 49 people were hospitalized.
Despite the fact that Saint Petersburg subway was partly closed for the whole day after the attack and above-ground public transport was overloaded, people gathered at the site to lay flowers and light candles to honor the memory of the victims of St. Pete metro blast.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also visited the site of the deadly attack at Tekhnologichesky Institut station in the Saint Petersburg metro and laid flowers late on April 3.
In Israel, the Tel Aviv city hall building was illuminated in the colors of the Russian flag in solidarity with Russia after the blast in the Saint Petersburg metro on April 3.
A young woman lights a candle near the entrance of the Spasskaya station in memory of St. Petersburg's subway blast victims on April 3. City authorities announced there would be a three-day period of mourning in the city from April 4.
Muscovites also gathered to pay tribute to the victims of the Saint Petersburg metro explosion. People laid flowers at the Leningrad memorial on the Alley of the Hero Cities in Moscow.
In memory of the victims of the explosion in the St. Petersburg underground, citizens of Simferopol, Crimea staged a vigil on Lenin Square to lay flowers and light candles.
Participants of a vigil on Lenin Square in Simferopol, Crimea, light candles to pay tribute to the victims of Monday's deadly St. Petersburg attack.
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