Tenants were evacuated from two sections of the apartment house
ST. PETERSBURG, April 6./TASS/. An explosive device has been defused in a residential building in St. Petersburg, the head of the city’s Nevsky district administration, Konstantin Serov, has told reporters.
"An explosive device was found, it has been defused," he said. "Orders have been given to return (the evacuated) residents, everything is safe up to the seventh floor," Serov said, adding that investigators are still working on the eighth and ninth floors.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 6./TASS/. An explosive device has been defused in a residential building in St. Petersburg, the head of the city’s Nevsky district administration, Konstantin Serov, has told reporters.
"An explosive device was found, it has been defused," he said. "Orders have been given to return (the evacuated) residents, everything is safe up to the seventh floor," Serov said, adding that investigators are still working on the eighth and ninth floors.
Serov said
the occupants of the apartment where the explosive device was found were not
its owners.
"Time
will be needed to find out how they found out to be there," the district
administration chief said without specifying the number of occupants. According
to local residents, a single-room apartment was let out on the seventh floor.
Tenants
were evacuated from two sections of the apartment house. Some of then went to
work, others were accommodated in a nearby kindergarten, he said. Earlier, TASS
reported referring to the Federal Security Service’s city department that
occupants of an apartment building on Tovarishchesky Avenue (Nevsky district)
were evacuated after a suspicious object had been found there.
Source: ITAR-TASS 06-04-2017
