05 September 2003, 12:44
Names of those who were killed near Kislovodsk have been identified
All the persons died in the Kislovodsk-Minvody train that was blown up a day ago have been identified. As it was reported at the Stavropol territory's health ministry yesterday, four people died. They are Yevgeny Arossian, 21, Denis Kvachov, 22, Vladimir Molchanov, 14, and Inna Mkheidze, 18. A 17 year-old girl, Yana Furmanova, was taken to hospital in the condition of an apparent death, but doctors managed to save her life.
54 people were taken to hospitals after the terrorist act in the electric train.
Two explosions resounded simultaneously at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Their capacity was 5 kilograms of trotyl equivalent. The explosive assembles were mounted on the bed 5 meters far from each other.
Ambulance cars rushed 34 victims right from the site of explosion to hospitals of the population centers located in the Caucasian Mineral Spas health resort area, but some passengers affected by the bombing first thought their injuries were not significant and left for home without reporting to the doctors. The condition of many of them began deteriorating soon, however, and they requested medical aid.
A senior health official in the Stavropol territory confirmed Thursday that four people had died in the bombing.
Long-distance trains and suburban trains returned to normal schedules on the Kislovodsk-Mineralnye Vody railroad by Thursday morning, as the technical aftermath of the explosion had been liquidated, said Yuri Voynikov, a chief traffic controller of the Mineralnye Vody junction. He said the repair teams had managed to restore the tracks after destruction within less than six hours.
Daily traffic on the railroad where the explosives went off includes 20 long-distance passenger trains, 64 suburban trains, and ten freight trains.
Source: ITAR-TASS News Agency