10 killed in St. Petersburg metro station blast

Ten people were killed in an explosion at a metro station in St. Petersburg on Monday, the authorities said.

The blast happened in a train in between two stations, a source in Russia’s emergency services said.

“There was one blast in one site in between [stations] as the train arrived at the Technology Institute station from the Sennaya [loshchad] station,” the source told Reuters.

A witness saw eight ambulances near the Sennaya Ploshchad station.