Blast Injures Two in Russian City
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An explosion hit a bus stop in the Russian city of Voronezh (search) on Monday, wounding two people a week after a blast at a bus stop in the same city killed one, a local security official said.
A duty officer at the Federal Security Service (search) office in Voronezh said a 30-year-old woman was injured as she drove by the blast.
The explosion blew out windows on passing cars and on some nearby apartments, NTV television reported.
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The local prosecutor's office opened a terrorism investigation into the blast, but there was no immediate indication of who the suspects might be.
On July 19, a bomb with the explosive equivalent of two pounds of TNT went off in a waste container near a bus stop in the city 300 miles south of Moscow. That blast occurred at roughly the same time — 8:15 a.m.
The ITAR-Tass news agency reported that a similar explosive device — loaded with bolts and screws — exploded in the city in February.
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A series of explosions blamed on Chechen rebels and their supporters has plagued Russia in recent years. However, criminal and commercial disputes also sometimes spill over into violence.