Russia: Bomb caused train crash that killed 26 (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sat, 11/28/2009 - 8:23am

Investigators and rescue workers are seen amid wreckage and damaged coaches at the site of a train derailment near the town of Uglovka, some 400 km (250 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009.<br /><br />An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing dozens of people and injuring scores of others in what may have been an act of sabotage, Russian officials said.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Russian officials opened a terrorism investigation Saturday, saying that a homemade bomb planted on the tracks of the high-speed Moscow-to-St.

Petersburg route caused a derailment that killed at least 26 people and injured dozens more.




 

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