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Prosecutors label Russia bus bomb as "terrorism"

Other News Materials 31 October 2007 12:12 (UTC +04:00)

( Reuters ) - Russian prosecutors labelled as a "terrorist" act a bomb explosion that killed 8 and injured more than 20 passengers in the city of Togliatti on Wednesday.

They opened a criminal investigation into the attack, Russian news agencies reported, three hours after the early morning explosion.

"According to the facts of the explosion in the bus in Togliatti, it is a criminal case that was initiated according to the paragraph 'Terror Act' of Russian law," said Vladimir Artyakov, the governor of the local Samara region, where Togliatti is situated.

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