Death toll rises to 14 in St Petersburg metro blast: Health minister

Fourteen people have died as a result of a blast that ripped through a train carriage on the Saint Petersburg metro, Russia`s Health Minister said on Tuesday.

Death toll rises to 14 in St Petersburg metro blast: Health minister

Leningrad Oblast: Fourteen people have died as a result of a blast that ripped through a train carriage on the Saint Petersburg metro, Russia`s Health Minister said on Tuesday.

"We can state today that 14 people have died," Veronika Skvortsova told journalists, adding that 49 people are still hospitalised after the explosion on Monday afternoon. Anti-terror authorities had earlier reported a death toll of 11.

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