Saturday, 30 December 2017

St Petersburg supermarket blast suspect detained - FSB

The suspect has been handed over to the Russian Investigative Committee.

MOSCOW, December 30. /TASS/. Russia’s FSB Federal Security Service has detained the perpetrator and organizer of the explosion at the Perekrestok supermarket in St. Petersburg, the FSB PR center said on Saturday.

"On December 30, 2017, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation spotted and detained the organizer and perpetrator who detonated an improvised explosive device on December 27 in a salesroom of the Perekrestok supermarket in St. Petersburg," says the FSB press release obtained by TASS.

The suspect has been handed over to the Russian Investigative Committee.


Source: ITAR-TASS 30-12-2017