An attack, the first in the history of Belarus. The terror struck the capital Minsk, with an explosion in the subway that makes eleven deaths and more than a hundred wounded.
The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, whose offices are within walking distance from the scene of the explosion, did not rule out that the attack may have been organized abroad. Lukashenko has instructed the heads of the investigations of the intelligence services, the Committee for State Security, and ordered checks in all the arsenals of the former Soviet Republic.
The explosion occurred at 17.55 local time spike in traffic underground in the capital, in the caboose of a train while passengers were getting off at Oktyabrskaya. The station is the only junction between the two lines of a rapid transit system used by two million people a day. Because of the explosion, at least part of the ceiling of the subway station collapsed.
An eyewitness told Reuters that he saw the smoke coming from the metro station and people brought to the surface on a stretcher. Some witnesses also claimed to have seen a crater, probably caused by the detonation of a bomb. The lobby was filled with black smoke as people attempted to get away quickly, but no scenes of panic, as the Russian television showed the first evidence suggesting the wounded with his face bloodied and images of the drama, including an escalator uprooted.
The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, whose offices are within walking distance from the scene of the explosion, did not rule out that the attack may have been organized abroad. Lukashenko has instructed the heads of the investigations of the intelligence services, the Committee for State Security, and ordered checks in all the arsenals of the former Soviet Republic.
The explosion occurred at 17.55 local time spike in traffic underground in the capital, in the caboose of a train while passengers were getting off at Oktyabrskaya. The station is the only junction between the two lines of a rapid transit system used by two million people a day. Because of the explosion, at least part of the ceiling of the subway station collapsed.
An eyewitness told Reuters that he saw the smoke coming from the metro station and people brought to the surface on a stretcher. Some witnesses also claimed to have seen a crater, probably caused by the detonation of a bomb. The lobby was filled with black smoke as people attempted to get away quickly, but no scenes of panic, as the Russian television showed the first evidence suggesting the wounded with his face bloodied and images of the drama, including an escalator uprooted.
Lukashenko wanted to lay a bouquet of flowers on the site of the explosion before chairing an emergency meeting without comment. So far Belarus had never known the phenomenon of terrorism, apart from the explosion of a bomb artisanal July 4, 2008, Independence Day, caused 50 wounded in a street in the center of Minsk. 
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