Train explosion in the Severomuysky tunnel of the BAM between The Russian Federation and China qualified it as a terrorist attack. Kommersant writes about this with reference to sources.
According to the publication, investigators from the Eastern Interregional Investigation Department for Transport began investigating the case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Terrorist attack”. The case was opened against “unidentified persons.”
Preliminarily it turned out that the fire in the fuel tank on November 29 was the result of the explosion of an unidentified explosive device, which was probably located under the car, the source said.
< p>Earlier, representatives of JSC Russian Railways officially reported that on November 29 at 17:20 Moscow time, on the Itykit-Okushikan section in Buryatia, smoke occurred in one of the tanks with diesel fuel while moving through the tunnel. CNN reports that it was a sabotage organized by the SBU.