ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian investigators arrest three people suspected of links to a suicide bomber accused of attacking the city’s subway earlier this week, and defused elements of an explosive device in the apartment where they lived.
The Investigative Committee says the suspects are residents of the former Soviet Central Asia region like the bomber, 22-year-old Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, a native of Kyrgyzstan.
The building’s residents were evacuated before explosives experts went in to check the site. Konstantin Serov, the chief administrator in the city district where the building is located, tells Russian news agencies that police deactivated an explosive device at the apartment.
The committee, the nation’s top criminal investigation agency, says investigators also found objects that would help advance the probe during a search of the home on St. Petersburg’s eastern outskirts.
No one has claimed responsibility for the subway bombing, but Russian trains and planes long have been targeted by bombings staged by Islamist militants.
— AP
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