Five killed in Russian train blasts

AT least five people were killed and more than 30 others injured when two explosions rocked a commuter train in a southern Russian town near the war-torn Muslim republic of Chechnya.

An emergencies ministry’s spokesman said at least 32 other people, many of them teenagers travelling to attend university classes in the town of Pyatigorsk, were injured in the blasts after suffering severe burns and shrapnel wounds.

“Everything shook from side to side. All that I can remember is lots of dust all over the place and everything shaking,” Ilya Kamyshanov told Rossia state television from his hospital bed in the Stavropol region.