- Title: RUSSIA: BOMB EXPLODES ON MOSCOW TROLLYBUS
- Date: 12th July 1996
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JULY 12, 1996) (RTV -- ACCESS ALL) 1. GV SCENE OF THE BLAST (3 SHOTS) 0.19 2. MV INVESTIGATORS WORKING (3 SHOTS) 0.35 3. CU POOL OF BLOOD ON THE GROUND 4. SLV POLICE WITH DOGS 0.40 4. GV THE DAMAGED BUS (2 SHOTS) 0.54 5. GV PEOPLE NEARBY 1.05 6. MV MOSCOW POLICE SPOKESMAN VIKTOR BIRYUKOV SAY
- Embargoed: 27th July 1996 13:00
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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- Country: Russia
- Reuters ID: LVA1I5MOC3P804BJPB140TF99HXH
- Story Text: INTRO: One person has died and 20 others were injured when a bomb exploded on a Moscow trolleybus, the second attack in two days.
The bomb tore through the trolleybus in Moscow's morning rush hour on Friday (July 11), killing one person and injuring up to 20 others, police said. It was the second such attack in two days.
The trolleybus was turned into a scorched hulk of twisted metal by the blast. Blood splattered the pavement. Shards of glass were scattered over a wide area.
Some distance from the bus lay its front-window identification plate bearing the number 48 and covered in blood.
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin took charge of the investigation into the blast which, occurred at 8.20 a.m.
Viktor Biryukov, Moscow police spokesman, said one person had been killed and 22 injured in the blast.
Yuri Luzhkov, the powerful mayor of Moscow, visited the scene of the blast.
He later told a press conference that the blast was a part of "systematic terror" that people of Russia witnessed recently and added that it was the fourth of such terrorist acts.
Luzhkov said he could not exclude a Chechen link and added that it was likely the terrorist acts were a reaction to a decree signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin on introduction of extraordinary measures to fight crime.
Luzhkov denied that president Yeltsin planned to introduce the state of emergency in Moscow but said that extraordinary measures would be introduced in the city and added that details would be revealed later today.
Vyacheslav Mikhailov, Russian Minister of Nationalities described the incident as an outrageous and senseless "act of evil" and added that a Chechen link could not be excluded.
It was city's second trolleybus bomb in two days.
On Thursday, a bomb left in the trolleybus went off, badly injuring the driver.
The carbon-copy bomb on Friday was certain to heighten tension in the capital, which is just recovering from a bruising election campaign.
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