5 April 2017, 08:47 GMT
ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) — The news comes after on Monday, an explosion occurred in the St. Petersburg underground on the stretch of rail between the Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut metro stations at around 3 p.m. local time (12:00 GMT). The blast killed at least 14 people, according to Russian Minister of Healthcare Veronika Skvortsova. Forty-nine people were wounded.
On Wednesday, the Russian Investigative Committee named Kyrgyzstan native 22-year-old Akbarzhon Dzhalilov who was the citizen of Russia as the suicide bomber behind the attack. The investigation also found out that the same man had left a bag with an explosive device on the Ploschad Vosstaniya subway station. It was neutralized by specialists.
"At 13:20 [local time] the Pionerskaya station was closed due to an anonymous report," the statement said. The emergency was lifted 40 minutes later.
Later, the Pionerskaya metro station has reopened after an inspection found no dangerous objects inside following an afternoon bomb scare. "The Pionerskaya metro station was opened at 14:00, no dangerous objects found," the statement said.
