St. Petersburg railway stations evacuated over bomb threat
20:29, 1 April 2010
ST. PETERSBURG. April 1. KAZINFORM. 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; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
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."
Terrorist attacks in large Russian cities are often accompanied by false bomb alerts to destabilize the situation throughout the country; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.