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WORLD NEWSFriday 29 December 2017

Putin says St. Petersburg explosion was terror attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during an award ceremony in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 28, tack anyway.”
Storage boxes at all Per-
2017, for Russian Armed Forces service personnel who took part in the anti-terrorist operation in Syria. Putin said at Thursday’s award ekrestok supermarkets in St.
Petersburg were removed
ceremony that Wednesday’s explosion at a supermarket in the country’s second-largest city was a terrorist attack. following the attack. Oth-
er chains said they would
(Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP) tighten security measures.
Earlier this month, Putin
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA storage area for customers’ in Syria. ter resistance from terror telephoned President Don-
ald Trump to thank him for
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV bags at the supermarket in “You know that yesterday suspects should “liquidate what the Kremlin described
as a CIA tip that prevent-
Associated Press St. Petersburg. Investigators a terror attack was con- bandits on the spot.” ed more bombings in St.
Petersburg, Putin’s home-
MOSCOW (AP) — The ex- said the device contained ducted in St. Petersburg,” No one has claimed re- town.
The Federal Security Service
plosion at a supermarket in 200 grams (7 ounces) of Putin said. He went on to sponsibility for the super- said seven suspects linked
to the Islamic State group
Russia’s second-largest city explosives and was rigged note that another attack market bomb. Eight of the were arrested in connec-
tion to the alleged plot. The
was a terror attack, Presi- with shrapnel to cause was thwarted recently, a injured remained hospital- Kremlin said the suspects
had planned to bomb Ka-
dent Vladimir Putin said more damage. reference to an alleged ized. zan Cathedral and other
crowded sites.
Thursday, adding that he While Russian law enforce- series of bombings in St. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry In April, a suicide bomb-
ing in St. Petersburg’s sub-
has ordered security agen- ment agencies stopped Petersburg that a CIA tip Peskov, would not offer any way left 16 people dead
and wounded more than
cies to kill terror suspects on short of immediately de- helped prevent, according specifics on what led Putin 50. Russian authorities
identified the bomber as
the spot if they resist arrest. scribing the blast as a terror to the Kremlin. to declare the attack an a 22-year old Kyrgyz-born
Russian national. During
Officials said 13 people attack, Putin did not mince Putin said he told the chief act of terrorism. The shrap- his remarks at the Kremlin
awards ceremony, Putin
were injured Wednesday words Thursday at a Krem- of Russia’s main domestic nel that was part of the ex- said Russia’s 2-year military
campaign in Syria helped
when an improvised explo- lin awards ceremony for security agency, the FSB, plosive device proved the eliminate militants who
threatened Russia.
sive device went off at a Russian troops who fought that agents who encoun- explosion “was a terror at- He has previously said that
over 4,000 citizens from
Russia and some 5,000
people from other ex-So-
viet nations have joined
the Islamic State group
in Syria and Iraq. “What
would have happened if
those hundreds, thousands
... had come back to us,
trained, armed and well-
prepared?” Putin said.q

London to beef up its police presence on New Year’s Eve

LONDON (AP) — The Metropolitan Police but says the public should armed police and vehicle Police say tickets for Lon-
London plans to beef up said Thursday there’s no be vigilant. barriers. don’s fireworks display
its police presence and specific threat to the city’s Superintendent Nick Ald- Aldworth says police are have all been sold out and
closed down some roads massive celebration, worth says both overt and asking the public to be pa- that those without a ticket
for New Year’s Eve after a which is focused on a fire- covert protection meth- tient on New Year’s Eve be- should consider watching
year marked by repeated works display over the River ods will be used and rev- cause there will be many the event on television.
extremist attacks. Thames, elers should expect to see checkpoints in place. q