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Updated: Dec 28, 2017, 06.34 AM IST
SAINT PETERSBURG: A homemade bomb blast at a supermarket in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg injured 10 people Wednesday, officials said, sparking a probe into attempted murder.
"According to preliminary information, an explosion of an unidentified object occurred in a store," a spokeswoman for Russia's Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, said in a statement.
The blast was caused by a "homemade explosive device with the power equivalent to 200 grammes TNT filled with lethal fragments," she said.
"The investigation is looking at all possible causes of what happened," she said, adding that a probe for attempted murder had been launched.
The incident comes several months after Russia's second city was rocked with a metro bombing in April which killed 16 people and amid concern that hundreds of Russian citizens who travelled to fight alongside jihadists groups abroad could pose a mounting security challenge back home.
"Ten people have been hospitalised, their lives are not in danger," the head of the Saint Petersburg investigative unit Alexander Klaus told Russian news agencies.
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