9 Jul 2012 10:21

Bomb goes off in stairway of apartment block in Khabarovsk

KHABAROVSK. July 9 (Interfax) - An explosion occurred in the stairway of an apartment block in Khabarovsk last Sunday, the Khabarovsk territory police announced on Monday.

"The explosion was reported to the police by a tenant of the house. He said that the blast had damaged mailboxes and doors and broken windows," the report says.

A police team drove to the indicated address. Experts on explosives and a trained dog worked at the scene. They discovered fragments of an unidentified explosive device which is believed to have been equivalent to 57 grams of TNT.

The causes and circumstances of the explosion are being probed.