Blast Kills 11 at Metro Station in Belarus



Metro Station bombing 4/11/11
(Minsk, Belarus) A rush-hour blast in the Minsk metro station earlier today left 11 people dead and scores injured. The bomb exploded at the Oktyabrskaya metro station at 5:55 PM local time.

President Lukashenko arrived at the scene and ordered the KGB, the Belarus Security Service, to "turn the country upside down" to find the perpetrators.

While Belarus has been free of the Islamist terrorist violence that has plagued neighboring Russia, some 50 people were injured in July 2008 when a bomb went off at an independence day concert that Lukashenko was attending.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called Lukashenko to offer both condolences and assistance to the former Soviet republic. The Belarusian leader said later that Russian experts would arrive on Tuesday to help the KGB with the investigation.

Russia will send a team of experienced doctors to Minsk to help Belarusian metro station blast victims, a spokesman for Russian health and social development ministry said.

Given the reputed successful interrogation techniques of the Russians, I suspect the perps will be identified soon.