A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 16 people and injured 50 in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, raising security concerns ahead of the region’s Winter Olympics in just six weeks.
The explosion shook the city’s main railway station just after 12pm local time yesterday. A video from a CCTV camera nearby shows a flash of light inside the building and then almost immediately a cloud of smoke pouring out from the shattered windows.
Pictures in the Russian media showed many injured people lying on the frozen ground outside the Volgograd train station after the blast, which occurred near a metal detector just inside the main entrance. Medical personnel warned that the death toll could rise further.