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Explosion at St Petersburg Metro (read first post)

  • 03-04-2017 12:11pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 33,758 ✭✭✭✭


    The metro in St Petersburg had been hit by a terrorist attack.
    There are casualties. It happened close to rush hour.

    Next summer, Russia hosts the World Cup.


    Mod note:

    NO speculation without reliable information.

    Mod


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Any links/sources for further info?


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,839 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    I just saw some pics of the train that was hit, and bodies.

    Looks horrible...
    An File wrote: »
    Any links/sources for further info?

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39481770

    Russian news now reporting 2 blasts, not 1.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    An File wrote: »
    Any links/sources for further info?

    https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/848870909578555392


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭howiya


    Not much on this yet but will be updated

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39481770


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭GavMan




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Seen the news, no mention of terrorists yet, but there is ever possibility of it.

    Could be retaliation for Russian airstrikes and ground troops in Syria.

    Horrible stuff if its terrorism.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Don't jizz your pants.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Your Face wrote: »
    Don't jizz your pants.

    Hate when that happens.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Your Face wrote: »
    Don't jizz your pants.

    TO LATE!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Irish Praetorian


    Apparently Putin is in the city and has been informed; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39481770


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    10 dead now according to Sky


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    RobertKK wrote: »
    The metro in St Petersburg had been hit by a terrorist attack.
    There are casualties. It happened close to rush hour.

    Some part of me says it is a provocation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    It's just an explosion.

    I'd calm down till we actually have details.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    Probably Putin looking for justification to invade somewhere in the Caucasus again. Not like he hasn't done it before.

    Or maybe it's the Ukrainian fascists.

    They are not terrorists. They are just people planting bombs in our trains.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    its usually Chechens


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Why do Russia keep hold of Chechnya if the majority of them want out of Russia?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    Why do Russia keep hold of Chechnya if the majority of them want out of Russia?

    Because tyrants gonna tyrant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    Why do Russia keep hold of Chechnya if the majority of them want out of Russia?

    At some level this question is even sweet...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    RIP to the victims. Let's hope the injured survive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    RIP to the victims. Let's hope the injured survive.

    Yep. Regardless of politics, real people died and got hurt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Probably Putin looking for justification to invade somewhere in the Caucasus again. Not like he hasn't done it before.

    Or maybe it's the Ukrainian fascists.

    They are not terrorists. They are just people planting bombs in our trains.

    Careful, you could end up with more than sugar in your tea making statements like that.

    It seems it was public knowledge Putin was to be there today, could as likely be an attack on him as an attack by him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭King George VI


    Careful, you could end up with more than sugar in your tea making statements like that.

    Just like nanny used to make. Drop o' that Polonium 210 in to your tae, rich tea on the side for a sneaky dip. Приветствия


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    absolute cowardly scum whoever is behind this, rip to the victims!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    Yeah. List of suspects here could be quite long:

    -Chenenyans
    -Georgians
    -Syrians/ISIS
    -Ukrainians
    -CIA
    -FSB

    Just to name a few.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    I wonder is it the usual suspects from Syria?


    Was that a good sequel?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    Reports of two bombs in two seperate stations, further unexploded bomb found in third station.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    TBH considering the Russian governments plans to tighten up on dissent, I would not put this past the FSB.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    judeboy101 wrote: »
    TBH considering the Russian governments plans to tighten up on dissent, I would not put this past the FSB.

    lets leave the conspiracy theories for now yeah?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    Depp wrote: »
    lets leave the conspiracy theories for now yeah?

    I dunno. In countries like Russia where the Government is accountable to absolutely nobody, conspiracy theories have a much larger possibility of being true. There is huge skepticism about who carried the bombings in 1999 in Moscow for example and with Russia there is so many things unexplained.

    Still, it's an awful tragedy. I have been to Saint Petersburg twice and I think it is a fantastic city. Have a friend who is from there but thankfully all of her family are ok.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I don't care if it's about the Chechens, the Syrians or a gas explosion: NO speculation without reliable information.

    Mod


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Horrible stuff if its terrorism.

    What else could it possibly be? An accident? I don't know of any other way to describe this other than terrorism. It doesn't matter who planted the bombs.

    It's an awful thing to happen, these people were just doing normal stuff, going to work, shopping, bring their kids out etc etc. I can't imagine what it's like to be in that situation.

    RIP to those who lost their lives for some cause they have nothing to do with.
    TO LATE!!

    To late, or not to late, that is the question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Ferrari3600


    Depp wrote: »

    The Telegraph deleted their tweet, the article from 'vocativ.com' is still there.

    It means next to nothing of course, ISIS will claim anything they see as getting them publicity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    The Telegraph deleted their tweet, the article from 'vocativ.com' is still there.

    It means next to nothing of course, ISIS will claim anything they see as getting them publicity.

    Isis winners of The Voice 2017


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    The Telegraph deleted their tweet, the article from 'vocativ.com' is still there.

    It means next to nothing of course, ISIS will claim anything they see as getting them publicity.

    very true, just if it is found to be isis the retalliation wont be pretty, and what russia are at over there at the minute is rough enough!

    also the tweet was a quote from the russian prosecutor general calling this a terrorist attack, still on the live feed on their website. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/03/saintpetersburg-bombing-casualties-explosion-metro-train/


  • Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭CaptainR


    RT are reading out tweets of survivors of the blast, one said they smelled gunpowder.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    CaptainR wrote: »
    RT are reading out tweets of survivors of the blast, one said they smelled gunpowder.

    Someone else probably smelled strawberries so that's not really here nor there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    CaptainR wrote: »
    RT are reading out tweets of survivors of the blast, one said they smelled gunpowder.

    apparently the device used was a briefcase with the equivalent of 300g of tnt, this is based off the unexploded device found.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    https://twitter.com/rentvchannel/status/848908572062822400

    Russian media have released cctv pictures of a man suspected of leaving a briefcase on the train.


  • Registered Users Posts: 633 ✭✭✭JaCrispy


    That's a long beard and a jubba. Shock horror.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Depp wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/rentvchannel/status/848908572062822400

    Russian media have released cctv pictures of a man suspected of leaving a briefcase on the train.

    looks more like a weasel than a lion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,436 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    He going get lot of hurt when he goes to prison, prsuming he still alive


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    The Telegraph deleted their tweet, the article from 'vocativ.com' is still there.

    It means next to nothing of course, ISIS will claim anything they see as getting them publicity.

    What makes you think that? I understood ISIS are consistent in that sense.

    A device filled with shrapnel..jesus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    He going get lot of hurt when he goes to prison, prsuming he still alive

    In Russia? He'll never see prison because when they catch him, he'll be spending every minute left of his miserable life being tortured for information . A deserved fate too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,650 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Depp wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/rentvchannel/status/848908572062822400

    Russian media have released cctv pictures of a man suspected of leaving a briefcase on the train.

    Before I click let me guess. It was some crazy blonde mormon girl ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    It was bound to happen at some stage unfortunately for all involved .
    Terror knows no borders


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,758 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Some of the things that happened the people are just horrific, everyone covered in blood, people with their hair burned off from the explosion.

    As with all attacks like this, the sheer hate involved to do this is the real scary thing.


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