"Neva Express" train could be blown up by militants from the Caucasus

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on August 13 at 9:38 p.m. train No. 166 Moscow - St-Petersburg got derailed and crashed down. The accident took place in the Burga-Malaya Vishera railway section of the Oktiabrskaya Railways. As a result, 60 passengers suffered, over 30 others were hospitalized to the Malaya Vishera hospitals, and 16 victims were taken to the Road Hospital of the Oktiabrskaya Railways in St-Petersburg. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

On the fact of the train accident, a criminal case was initiated under the terrorism article. Several versions of the explosion are considered, including individual terror, involvement in the explosion of extremist right-wing radical organizations, and also a certain "Caucasian trace," however, the latter version is not among the basic ones, although Nikolai Patrushev, FSB Director, has related the explosion of the railway track in the Novgorod Region to the aggravation of the operative situation in Northern Caucasus.

A source from the operative-investigatory group that is engaged in investigation of the accident told the "Interfax" that exactly the same scenario was used on June 12, 2005, at undermining the "Grozny-Moscow" train in the Ozeretskiy District of the Moscow Region.

A spokesman of the press service of the Northwest Transport Interior Department has reported today that identikits of two suspects of blowing up the train have been already compiled.