SAINT PETERSBURG: A blast hit the metro system of Russia's second city Saint Petersburg Monday, authorities said, with news agencies quoting security sources as saying that about ten people have been killed.

"The Saint Petersburg prosecutor's office has begun to investigate the blast in a train carriage" at the Technological Institute metro station's platform, the prosecutors' statement said.

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