Moscow:
A homemade bomb blast at a supermarket in the
Russian city of Saint Petersburg injured 10 persons on Wednesday,
officials said.
“According to preliminary information, an explosion of
an unidentified object occurred in a store,” Investigative Committee
spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement.
The blast was caused
by a “homemade explosive device with the power equivalent to 200 gm of
TNT filled with lethal fragments,” she said.
“The investigation is
looking at all possible causes of what happened,” she said. The injured
were out of danger.