Bomb Fails To Explode At Railway Station

A bomb planted in a railway station failed to explode when the detonator went off at 6 a.m. Friday, police said.

The bomb, which contained 6-1/2 pounds of TNT, was hidden in two shopping bags left in the main railway station in Voronezh, about 300 miles south of Moscow, police told the ITAR-Tass news agency.

“The explosive device was literally stuffed with metal balls and pieces of metal. People would have been riddled with this horrible shrapnel, and any survivors would have been killed by a collapsed roof,” local prosecutor Yuri Gorshenev said.

Witnesses told police the bags were left by a man and two women, who left quickly in a car.