A “shrapnel filled-device’ exploded on a train in the Metro Network in the city of St Petersburg, Russia leading to the death of 10 people while 50 others have been confirmed injured.
ZENITHBLOG.com earlier reported that the incident happened today, Monday, April 3 when President Vladimir Putin was supposed to be visiting the city.
There have been other terror attacks on Russia over the past 15 years, below is a list of the major ones:
1. December 2013
A bomb blast ripped a trolleybus apart in Volgograd in the second deadly attack in the southern city in two days.
At least 14 people were killed in a bombing on a trolleybus crowded with morning commuters in Volgograd
2. January 24, 2011
An explosion at the international arrivals hall at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport kills at least 31 people, wounds over 140.
3. October 19, 2010
Three bombers attack the building of Chechnya’s regional parliament, leaving six people dead and 17 wounded in a raid that defied Kremlin claims of stability in the region.
4. March 29, 2010
Double bombings on the Moscow subway kill 40, wound more than 100. A Chechen rebel warlord claims responsibility for the attack.
5. November 27, 2009
A bombing of a high-speed Moscow-to-St.Petersburg train kills 28 and wounds nearly 100. Chechen rebels claim responsibility.
6. August 17, 2009
An attacker rams a truck loaded with explosives into a police station in the city of Nazran the province of Ingushetia, killing 25 and wounding more than 160 people. Chechen rebels claim responsibility.
Rescue crews worked on a Russian luxury train that was bombed between Moscow and St. Petersburg, killing more than 25 people. Russian officials called it an act of terrorism
7. November 6, 2008
A bomber hits a bus in Vladikavkaz in the province of North Ossetia killing 12.
8. October 13, 2005
Islamic militants launch a series of attacks on police in Nalchik, capital of the tense Kabardino-Balkariya republic near Chechnya. Chechen rebels claim credit for the attack, in which 139 people were killed, including 94 militants.
9. September 1, 2004
About 30 Chechen militants seize a school in the southern town of Beslan and take hundreds of hostages — a siege that ended in a bloodbath two days later. More than 330 people, about half of them children, are killed.
10 years after the Beslan massacre, parents weep at a memorial held for dead children
10. August 31, 2004
A bomber blows herself up outside a Moscow subway station, killing 10 people. An Islamic group supporting Chechen rebels claims responsibility.
11. August 24, 2004
12. May 9, 2004
A bomb rips through a stadium in the Chechnya’s provincial capital, Grozny, during a Victory Day ceremony, killing 24 people including Akhmad Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed regional president.
13. February 6, 2004
A bomber strikes a subway car in Moscow during rush hour, killing 41 people and wounding more than 100.
14. June 21-22, 2004
Islamic militants attack police headquarters and other government buildings in the city of Nazran in Ingushetia, killing more than 90 people — mostly police officers — and wounding more than 100. Chechen insurgents claim responsibility.
15. December 5, 2003
A bombing on commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people, two days before Russian parliamentary elections.
16. August 1, 2003
A bomber rams truck filled with explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya, killing 50 people, including Russian troops wounded in Chechnya.
17. July 5, 2003
Double bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the female attackers and 15 other people.
18. June 5, 2003
Female attacker detonates bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military air base near Chechnya, killing at least 16 people.
19. May 12, 2003
A bomber using a truck kills at least 60 at a government compound in northern Chechnya.
20. December 27, 2002
A truck-bomb attack destroys headquarters of Chechnya’s Moscow-backed government in the provincial capital, Grozny, killing 72 people.
21. October 23, 2002
Chechen militants take 800 people hostage at a Moscow theater. Two days later, Russian special forces storm building and 129 hostages and 41 Chechen fighters are killed, mostly from effects of narcotic gas Russian forces use to subdue the attackers.
22. August 1999
Four apartment building bombings kill about 300 people in Moscow and two other Russian cities. The Kremlin names the attacks as a key reason for sending troops back into Chechnya on September 30, 1999.
Smoke rises from the scene of the apartment bombings in Russia, 1999
23. January 9, 1996
Several hundred Chechen rebels seize a hospital in the town of Kizlyar near Chechnya during the first separatist war in Chechnya, taking some 3,000 people hostage. At least 40 people were killed. The attackers retreated after battling Russian troops for several days.
24. June 14, 1995
About 200 Chechen fighters seize a hospital in Budyonnovsk near the Chechen border during the first Chechen war in Chechnya. The attackers held more than 1,000 people and killed about 100; dozens more died when Russian troops unsuccessfully stormed the hospital June 17. Over 400 people were injured during the siege.
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