Eleven people were killed and dozens injured Monday in a blast on the St. Petersburg metro, the Russian health ministry said.
The explosion tore through a train traveling in a tunnel between subway stations.
A spokesman for the National Anti-terrorism Committee said the blast was caused by an explosive device in one of the train's cars.
"So far, we say it was an unidentified explosive device as investigators and the Federal Security Service's bomb specialists are to establish the exact cause of this explosion," Andrei Przhezdomsky told state-run Russia 24.
A second device was found and defused at another station, the committee said.
The St. Petersburg Prosecutor General's office called the explosion a terrorist attack, according to state-run media. No group has claimed responsibility.
The city’s entire metro system was shut down after the explosion.
Metro commuters described scenes of horror: “Everything filled with smoke; people started panicking.”
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