Around the World: Russia

Train blast a terror attack

Relatives yesterday begun the grim process of identifying loved ones killed in the wreck of an express train Russian authorities say was blown off the tracks by a terrorist bomb.

Other relations visited the scores of injured victims in hospitals, while investigators tried to determine who was behind what would be Russia's deadliest terrorist attack outside the violence-plagued North Caucasus provinces in five years. The rear three cars of the Nevsky Express, one of Russia's fastest trains, derailed on a remote stretch of track late on Friday as it sped from Moscow to St. Petersburg, killing some passengers and trapping others in the jumbled wreckage.

(China Daily 11/30/2009 page8)