10 killed in Russian cafe blast
Afp, Moscow
Ten people died overnight in an explosion and fire at a cafe in a market in Russia's southern Orenburg region overnight, Russian news agencies reported yesterday. Investigators suspected "premeditated murder through arson," ITAR-TASS quoted Galina Maiorova, an aide to the regional prosecutor, as saying. "Currently all possible versions are being considered. Witnesses are being found and questioned," she said. Footage on state television showed law enforcement officials removing corpses in bodybags from the "Yantarny" cafe, a blackened and badly damaged one-storey corrugated iron structure. All 10 victims, apparently including the cafe's owners, were found in one corner of the bar. According to the independent Gazeta.ru news website the dead comprised five women and five men.
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