St. Petersburg railway stations evacuated over bomb threat | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Passengers and employees of two railway stations in Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg were evacuated over a bomb threat, the press service for the local transportation department said on Thursday.
At around 2:30 p.m. Moscow time [11:30 GMT] an unidentified person called the Oktyabrskaya railway information desk saying that both the Moskovsky and Finlyandsky railway stations were mined. All passengers and employees of both stations were evacuated.
‘Both stations were checked,’ a spokeswoman from the transportation department said, adding ‘The information [on the bombs] was not confirmed.'”