As of eight o'clock in the morning of Thursday, the total number of people injured in the explosion at the Perekrestok store on Kondratyevsky Avenue is 13 people. As the vice-governor of the city Anna Mityanina reported in her Twitter, five victims refused to be hospitalized. Eight wounded are in hospital, five of them in a state of moderate severity, three in satisfactory.

According to the police, an improvised explosive device, equipped with destructive elements. Experts estimate its capacity at 200 grams in TNT equivalent. Investigators qualified the bombing in St. Petersburg as an assassination attempt.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in St. Petersburg on Wednesday evening, December 27, there was an explosion. As a result of the explosion, injured ten people. Ambulance took the injured to the hospital. One of the victims is in serious condition.