2011年4月14日星期四

Belarusians fight to explain u station blast - BBC News

12 April 2011 last updated at 11:19 pm People light candles at a memorial to those killed in the metro station blast (12 April 2011) grieving gathered at the monument by an entrance to the u-Bahn-Station of Belarusians, an explanation for the massive explosion that ripped through a metro station in Minsk, groping, found are killed 12 people and injured more than 200, Reported earlier this week, David Stern.

Belarus is what high alert now believe officials of a terrorist attack was.

You say a bomb at close at 1800 local time, at the height of the rush hour, in the Oktyabrskaya station - one of the Minsk busiest went.

The explosive device, which was packed with nails and ball bearings, and 5 kg was TNT, was placed under a bank on the platform, they add. It can by remote control was ignited have.

The Interior Minister, Anatoly Kuleshov, said that the attacker was "as possible to kill so many people".

Memorial

Tuesday's grieving by the entrances to the u-Bahn-Station, where a spontaneous Memorial to sprung collected.

Each time someone would forward, put a flower on one of the many rapidly growing stack or a votive candle light step.

A woman stands outside the metro station in Minsk (12 April 2011)Stand as if on the ground people rooted with a view to the Metro station

In recesses of the road was there a formal shrine - six boards with the names of the victims simply printed on it. Above was a low, red platform where one always was even greater bunch of flowers.

The crowd, which sometimes grew to a few hundred, was quiet for the most part.

Stand as if on the ground rooted people with a view to the makeshift Memorial, their faces with disbelief etched.

"I am shocked," said Lidiya Vintskevich, a journalism student who works at a local radio station. "I can't believe that something like this could happen in our city, we are so small."

The Belarusian security services, which are known under its acronym of Soviet era KGB, said a composite photo of the possible perpetrators spread now is.

"The man was nichtslawische look up to the 27 years old, and well built." In a brown coat and a woollen hat was dressed ", KGB Chairman Vadim Zaitsev said he added that the suspect could have hired to place the bomb."

Also said the country's Deputy Prosecutor, that more than one person was detained but no further details.

' No meets

Belarus has come under increasing political and economic pressure in the past few months.

The United States and the European Union slapped harsh sanctions on the Belarusian Government, after it down on the country of the opposition after presidential elections last year clamped.

President Alexander Lukashenko chairs a meeting in Minsk (12 April 2011)President Lukashenko has promised Belarus "inside out", enable to find responsible

President Alexander Lukashenko and other top officials were prohibited from travelling to the West.

Now to run Central Bank of the country's hard currency, and many analysts predicting a steep devaluation of the currency, the ruble.

President Lukashenko already regulates what is considered Europe's most stringent authoritarian State. Many Belarusians support him, but partly out of gratitude for the stability and law and order that he provides.

Mr Lukashenko has promised, Belarus turn "inside out", which is responsible to find.

In comments only after the explosion, he also said that an attempt would destabilize the country, and was possibly a "present from abroad".

However, many Belarusians are at a loss to imagine who would benefit from such an attack.

"I can imagine not why someone would do this", said Stepan, a businessman who asked not with his last name. "I can not imagine what they would win or what they hoped to achieve." "It makes absolutely no sense."


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