Just another day in Putin’s banana Republic.
Via Washington Post:
MOSCOW — A bomb exploded in a supermarket in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on Wednesday, injuring 10 and raising new concerns of terrorism just weeks after Russian authorities claimed a tip from the United States helped ward off a major attack in the same city.
The bomb, which authorities called a “homemade explosive device” with the strength of about half a pound of TNT, exploded in a locker at a Perekryostok supermarket in the northeast of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city and the country’s cultural capital. The bomb was packed with what authorities called “killing agents,” which local reports said were ball bearings.
Russian authorities did not immediately call the explosion a terrorist attack, classifying it instead as the attempted murder of two or more people, without naming the intended targets. No information was released about a suspect.