An explosive device has been made safe in a flat in St Petersburg by Russian police, three days after a bomb on the city’s metro left 14 people dead.<\/p>\n
A city official said several suspects were detained after police raided the flat early on Thursday morning, Ria Novosti reported.<\/p>\n
Neighbours were moved away and witnesses said three men were led out in handcuffs, the agency said.<\/p>\n
The main suspect in the metro bombing, Akbarzhon Jalilov, died in the attack.<\/p>\n
Aged 22 and from the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, his remains were identified by his parents on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The flat raided at around 05:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Thursday was in Tovarichesky Prospekt in the east of St Petersburg.<\/p>\n
Sources told Interfax news agency that investigators were examining possible links between the three men and the alleged bomber. Jalilov himself had been renting a flat in the north of Russia’s second city.<\/p>\n
Russia’s Investigative Committee made no reference to the arrests but said on Thursday they had established that “several citizens of Central Asian republics were in contact with Jalilov”.<\/p>\n
While searching the flat they had been living in, investigators said they had found “items of significance for the investigation”.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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