8 arrested in connection with St. Petersburg bombing

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People gather at a symbolic memorial at Technologicheskiy Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A bomb blast tore through a subway train deep under Russia’s second-largest city St. Petersburg Monday, killing several people and wounding many more in a chaotic scene that left victims sprawled on a smoky platform. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

MOSCOW (AP) Russia’s intelligence chief says six members of terrorist cells have been arrested in connection with last week’s deadly bombing on the subway in St. Petersburg.

Last week’s suicide bombing on the subway in Russia’s second largest city killed 13 passengers and injured dozens. A Kyrgyz-born Russian national has been identified as the bomber.

Alexander Bortnikov, chief of the FSB, the main successor to the KGB intelligence agency, said in comments carried by Russia news agencies on Tuesday that six members of terrorist cells have been detained in St. Petersburg and two in Moscow in connection with the attack. Bortnikov said all of them are from former Soviet Central Asian republics and that the police found a large amount of weapons and ammunition at their homes.

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