{"id":1617,"date":"2009-11-28T06:10:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2009-11-28T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T12:11:08","slug":"terror-inquiry-launched-into-russian-train-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/terror-inquiry-launched-into-russian-train-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror inquiry launched into Russian train crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian authorities claim a train crash, which killed at least 25 people, may have been a terror attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/crash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1618\" title=\"Russian train crash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/crash.jpg\" alt=\"Russian train crash\" width=\"385\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/crash.jpg 385w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/crash-280x134.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a>The Nevsky Express, carrying more than 650 passengers from Moscow to St Petersburg, was derailed just after 9.30pm Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>At least 25 people were killed and 96 hospitalised in the crash, while a further 18 were still not accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, Russian prosecutors confirmed they had opened a criminal case on charges of terrorism and illegal possession of explosives, but would not speculate on the motives or suspects behind any attack.<\/p>\n<p>The chief of the state-owned railroad firm, Russian Railways, said investigators believed the derailment was caused by a terrorist bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Yakunin told state television the main line of inquiry being pursued by experts was, &#8220;To put it simply, a terrorist attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A crater was discovered near the railway track and passengers have reported hearing a loud bang just before the derailment.<\/p>\n<p>Russian television has broadcast a recording of a mobile phone call from the train driver to the emergencies ministry saying there had been an explosion under the train.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-car Nevsky Express is a luxury train, popular with business executives and government officials and the line has been targeted before.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the service was derailed by a bomb, injuring 30 people, in an attack Russian authorities linked to Chechen rebels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian authorities claim a train crash, which killed at least 25 people, may have been a terror attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,107,118,37],"tags":[2540,2536,2537,2538,2535,2532,2534],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-health","category-hot","category-middle-east","tag-chechen-rebels","tag-crash","tag-nevsky-express","tag-russian-railways","tag-russian-train","tag-russian-train-crash","tag-train-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}