April 13 – Day of Mourning in Minsk (photo+video)

April 14, 10.15. 13 blast casualties discharged from Minsk hospitals

160 people are in Minsk hospitals at the moment of April 14. 27 of them are in severe condition, 34 - of medium complexity, 99 - of light complexity.

 

April 14, 09.27. Russian psychologists helped 140 Minsk blast casualties.

58 people out of them called the hotline.

 

April 14, 08.50. Minsk metro working in full scope after terrorist act.

The station "Kastrychnitskaya", where the blast occurred, has also resumed working.

 

April 14, 06.22. Rock-concert in Hrodna cancelled. Drama theatre, puppet theatre and city cinemas postponed entertainment performances and movies.

 

April 14, 06.08. Russian citizen injured by metro blast discharged from hospital.

A student of the Belarusian law insitute, Moscow inhabitant Raman Karakhanau has informed the journalists about it himself.

 

April 14, 05.54."Kastrychnitskaya" metro station to resume working today.

Trains did not stop at "Kastrychnitskaya" metro station yesterday. The first line will start working with all stops since 5.00 a.m. on April 14.

April 13, 16.38. 8 foreigners injured in “October” station blast

8 foreign citizens were taken to hospital after the terrorist act in Minsk metro. The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed BelTA about it.

April 13, 15.37. Free legal assistance for blast victims

The Ministry of Justice gave the corresponding order on the basis of the Belarusian Law “On terrorism prevention” on April 12, 2011.

April 13, 13.42. Alyaksandr Lukashenka claims terrorist act is solved

"The crime was solved at 5 o’clock in the morning today”, - he claimed during a speech on the Belarusian television on April 13.

April 13, 12.36. Belarusian Catholics pray for metro terrorist act victims in churches on Mourning Day

People are praying for those killed and injured in the terrorist act in all Belarusian Catholic churches today.

April 13, 07.54. April 13 has been announced the Day of Mourning for the victims of Minsk metro blast.

The decision has been made by Minsk City Executive Committee.

All entertaining events have been cancelled in the capital until the end of the week. Head of Minsk City Executive Committee Mikalai Ladutska claimed it yesterday.
 

April 13, 05.21. The first burials of victims of the explosion in Minsk metro will be organized today.

According to Mikalai Rakevich, director of “Special complex RKA”, the burials will take place in Kalodzishchy Cemetery situated in Hlebkavichy village, Minsk District.

April 12, 14.00.  

 

"Kupalauskaya" metro station, closed due to the blast at the neighbouring “Kastrychnitskaya” station, admits first passengers after the terrorist attack.

April 12, 13.58.  

 

Special services detected 13 people who disseminated rumours about terroristic attacks in Minsk. Minsk city administration of internal affairs informed before that those who are considered guilty in dissemination of such rumours will face up to 5 years of imprisonment.

April 12, 13.45. 

 

Brest activist Liudmila Dzenisenka is summoned to the KGB office in connection with the terrorist attack. Dzenisenka: “I am the first Brest party structures leader to be summoned to KGB in this regard, but I think I am not the last one”.

April 12, 13.33.  

 

"Life News" publishes facial composite print of a terrorist

The web-resource claims with a reference to Belarusian Interior Ministry that the blast was conducted by a middle-aged man in a blue cap. The Ministry does not confirm this.

April 12, 13.03.  

 

Minsk city executive committee to provide 10 th. USD to victims' families

Apart from this, they will assist the victims' relatives in organization of funerals.

April 12, 13:03.

 

Activists summoned for conversations about metro blast

Human rights defenders urge the law enforcement authorities which investigate the tragedy not to create an atmosphere of fear and suspicion in the society.

Social activist Ihar Bahatchyk has been summoned to the police department for a conversation by phone in the morning on April 12 in Minsk. The topic of the conversation - yesterday's blast at "Kastrychnitskaya" metro station.

Ihar Bahatchyk used to be named in the "anarchists' case", but the accusations against him were withdrawn. He was invited to the police right after the blast. Ihar refused to go there without a subpoena, and the policemen promised to deliver it to him. 

It became known that the law enforcement authorities' representatives are trying to break into the apartment of an ecologist Uladzimir Valodzin. They are threatening they will break the doors. Valodzin is not at home, only his grandmother is there.

According to the information provided by human rights defenders, interrogations of activists started also in Brest.     

Human rights defenders urge the law enforcement authorities which investigate the tragedy not to create an atmosphere of fear and suspicion in the society and try to find the real criminals as soon as possible, the human rights center "Viasna" informs.

April 12, 12.21.

Several people detained upon suspicion in being connected with metro blast.

The deputy general public prosecutor of Belarus Andrej Shved, who heads the operative group for the blast investigation, informed about this on April 12.

 

April 12, 12.13.

Minsk metro to resume work in full scope on Thursday

"The station "Kastrychnitskaya", where the terroristic act occurred, will be opened at 14.00 on Thursday", - the city Mayor Mikalaj Ladutska has said.

 

April 12, 12.12.

 

Blast witnesses summoned to KGB. 

A student Maxim Leu was at the tragedy site right after the blast and till late at night. He was summoned to the KGB office today in this regard.

 

April 12, 12.09.

 

"Nasha Niva" gives KGB men copies of photo and video materials

"There was no search. They asked for photo and video materials of yesterday's events. We gave them copies", — the newspaper's employee has said.

The newspaper "Nasha Niva" has given the KGB officers copies of poto and video materials of the blast in Minsk metro. The newspaper's employee Aleh Hardzienka has informed this to BelaPAN.

Let us remind you, KGB officers paid a visit to the newspaper's office today. According to "Nasha Niva", they talked to the editor-in-chief Andrej Skurko.

 

April 12, 11.26

 

Minsk police refute information about blast in a bus

"These are, most likely, just rumours", — representative of city administration of internal affairs said.

Minsk police refuted the information that there allegedly had been a blast in the bus No. 100 in Minsk. The law-enforcement agencies called this information a rumour. The Ministry of Emergency Situations and the "Minsktrans" dispatcher service also refuted this information, BelaPAN reports.

 

April 12, 11.08. 

Another blast victim identified.
 This is a native of Slutsk, Klemets Jury, born in 1987.

 

April 12, 11.08. 

Karyna Andrukovich no longer in the list of deceased

8 victims have been identified out of 12. It turned out that Karyna Andrukovich, born in 1971, is alive. The law enforcement agencies are clarifying the list of casualties.

April 12, 10.35.

 

Minsk police make facial composite prints of two anticipated terrorists

Police have made facial composite prints of two anticipated executors of Minsk metro blast, the interior Minister Anatol Kuliashou has said to journalists.

"We've made two facial composite prints basing on the testimonies of eye-witnesses - they addressed to us and described the suspects", - the Minister said, RIA Novosti informs.

According to him, both suspects are men.

Answering the journalists' question with regard to information about two women looking like suicide bombers, Kuliashou said that the Ministry wasn't looking for any women.

April 12, 10.27.

 

KGB officers come to "Nasha Niva"'s office

They are interested in photo and video materials from the tragedy site.

They are now talking to the editor-in-chief Andrej Skurko.

9 employees are in the office at the moment. No one is allowed out, Nasha Niva informs.

April 12, 10.17.

 

Special brigade of doctors arrives to Minsk from Russia

Specialists who have work experience in emergency situations, in particular, after blasts in Moscow metro, are included in the brigade.

An official representative of Russia's Ministry of Health Care and Social Development has informed to RIA Novosti that, "The Ministry is forming a brigade of experienced doctors to fly to Belarus to render consultative help to their Belarusian colleagues. These are neurosurgeons, emergency physicians and specialists who worked with mine-blast traumas".

 

April 12, 10.11.

 

Olympics winner Vasil Kaptsiukh’s son died in the blast.

The son of the famous Belarusian discus thrower Vasil Kaptsiukh Raman was killed by the blast in Minsk metro. He was only 21 years old.

April 12, 10.10.

 

People are bringing flowers and candles to the entrances of the central metro station since early morning to pay tribute to the victims of April 11 blast, Euroradio’s correspondent Ilya Malinouski informs.

April 12, 10.07.

 

Specialists of Russia's Federal Security Service arrive to Minsk

KGB has clarified that two experts-criminalists, including the head of the FSS special criminalistic laboratory, arrived to Minsk.

Specialists of Russia's Federal Security Service arrived to Minsk to assist their colleagues in the terrorist act investigation, the Center for information and public relations of the Belarusian KGB has informed to BELTA.

 

April 12,  10.07

 

9 victims out of 12 have been identified.

April 12, 8.03.

 

Minsk metro under increased security

Riot policemen are on duty at the entrances to another metro line - they are checking the passengers' bags and packs.

Minsk metro is being guarded by reinforced police squad, the administration of internal affairs for Minsk metro security has informed to BELTA's correspondent.

Riot policemen are on duty at the entrances to another metro line (Autozavodzkaya) - they are checking the passengers' bags and packs. The first Moscow line is not working, passengers cannot board a train or get off it at ""Kupalauskaya" metro station.

April 12, 7.50.

 

Investigation defines most likely executor of Minsk metro blast

They are now searching for him.

The investigation defined the most likely executor of the blast in Minsk metro, which took away the lives of 12 people, RIA Novosti informs with a reference to the Belarusian KGB.

"Information on the most likely executor of the blast has been received by the moment of 1 a.m. as a result of operative-investigation actions. He is now in search", - stated in the message.

 

April 12, 6.18.

 

Mourning announced in Minsk on April 13

Wednesday has been announced a mourning day due to the tragedy which happened in Minsk metro.

Minsk city executive committee took this decision, the committee's press-center informs. 

 

April 12, 6.06.

 

One metro line to work in Minsk so far 

"Autozavodzkaya" metro line will start working on Tuesday. "Moscow" metro line will not work so far.

One of Minsk metro lines will be temporarily closed after the blast at "Kastrychnitskaya" metro station, ITAR-TASS informs with a reference  to the Belarusian state television.

"Autozavodzkaya" metro line will start working in usual regime on Tuesday. Another line - "Moscow", where the blast occurred at "Kastrychnitskaya" metro station on April 11, will not work so far.

April 12, 05:33.

KGB informs that 12 people died, 149 were injured after April 11th blast in Minsk subway. The police "has a description of the most possible executor of the terror act". Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) will arrive in Minsk this morning to help with the investigation. The bomb was placed under the bench on the station's platform and contained nails, metal balls and fixtures. 

April 11, 22:30.

Photo from hospital #6 where a Euroradio reporter is waiting:

April 11, 21:45.

Mourning will be announced in Belarus on April 12, 2011.

April 11, 21:30.

Latest information. 11 people are dead. 128 are injured.

 April 11, 21:00.

Witness Arif: We got out of the underground along the ties!

Arif, at about 8.30: “At the moment of the explosion I was approaching “October” station in a train that had been heading away from the Central Railway Terminal. We were about 200 or 300 metres away from the station and the train shook and our ears got blocked. We did not understand that it was a blast. People were quiet because nobody understood that it was an explosion. It is nonsense in our country. We started approaching “October” station. It was dark there. Then everyone understood what had happened, people were knocking on the windows and on the doors. I could see nothing, the smoke was thick. People were panicking”.

People did not know what was going on. Somebody pressed the emergency button and asked the driver to explain what was going on. We were told to sit quiet. The train headed for the next station. We stopped about 300 meters away from “Victory Square” and started moving back meter by meter. Then the driver appeared a few minutes later. He said that he was going to explain how we could get out of the tunnel, what side we had to keep to avoid touching the electric rail. We started letting people out, mainly women and children from the first car.

The driver went to the second car and we started walking. We reached “Victory Square” station. We were met by employees who helped us get onto the platform. People were calm. They kept phoning relatives and told them not to go to the metro.

Euroradio: Can you recall how many people were at “October” station when your train stopped there?

Arif: They were standing like a wall along the train. I did not see what happened next. I usually pass the station at the time, but I had to go to the Chief Post office today. There are usually a lot of people at this time. It was pitch dark and I could not see anything, I did not see the injured because I was standing next to the other side of the car".

April 11, 21:30.

Latest information. 1 people are dead. 128 are injured.

April 11, 20:30.

According to Belarusian TV channels, the Ministry of Information has termed the explosion as a terrorist act.

April 11, 20:10.

Euroradio has made up a list of people injured in the explosion in Minsk metro. The list of surnames that is being updated can be found here.

April 11, 19.40

Sevyaryn Kvyatkouskі, journalist and literary man: “I entered the subway near the Central Supermarket and started descending in a crowd. The other group of people were descending from “Kupala” station. Something that seemed like a plop occurred a meter away from the escalator. People cowered automatically and started going back. The smoke was very thick. People started running back, there some panic. Somebody ran to “Kupala” station. I went outside and though that it was a joke, maybe a smoke pellet. I went back to take a picture of it with my smart phone. That was a journalist’s reflex I guess. I saw a woman with an injured leg being carried out. I understood that the case was serious. Then I saw people with injured arms.  

There was no great panic. Everyone heard a loud plop but I think that not all the people understood what it was. There was no tremor, our ears were not blocked. The smoke was thick, everything was covered in smoke. It was the end of the workday and there were three groups of people”.

April 11, 19:15.

Injured people are being delivered to the Emergency Hospital and to the 2nd and 6th Minsk hospitals. Preliminary information: 7 people are killed and about 75 are injured.

 
April 11, 18:50.

Witnesses have told Euroradio that many people were injured in their legs, there were missile wounds.

 
April 11, 18:45.

According to witnesses, the blast was followed by heavy fire. According to unofficial information, there was (or still is) fire at the station.
18:40. Special police troops are making people step away from the entrance to the metro station. “October” station is blocked and the first metro line is not functioning. All the people in Independence Square are walking home.


April 11, 18:30.

Euroradio reporter: blast occurred on the platform, not in the train

Euroradio reporter Illya Malinouski: “I am here and I can see about 15 ambulances but it is not clear whether they are enough for all the injured. They keep arriving and leaving. People were evacuated from both entrances and official representatives are not reporting anything. They say: we do not know what has happened here, let us find it out. The only confirmed thing is that some people have been killed, but they have not told the exact number. I have seen at least three killed people. Many people are in a very bad state”.


There were not enough ambulances at first and I saw that those who have already died were taken out of them so that the injured could be transported. Special police troops are making people go away, I am near the Kupala Theatre and they are still a making us to leave. They are probably doing it to prevent injuries in case of another blast. Probably all the people who were underground have already been evacuated.


I have talked to a guy who saw everything when he was descending. It happened on the platform and not in the train. He cannot recall where it was in the middle or somewhere else. According to him, it was a massive blast followed by fire. He saw people falling. He said that even the roof collapsed. But the official representative said that the roof did not collapse but some aluminum decorations may have fallen down. However, the station is not destroyed.

Official representatives do not refute that the blasting assembly was packed with buck-shot. There were people with lacerated wounds. It seemed so”.

April 11, 18:20.

There are a lot of ambulances near the blast site but that’s not enough. A dead man has been carried out of an ambulance to transport an injured person to hospital.

April 11, 18:15.

Blood-stained people are going out of the underground station. Witnesses say that there are many injured at the station.


April 11, 18:10.

The city Emergency Control Ministry has confirmed the information about the blast.

 
April 11, 17:56.

An explosion has occurred at “Kastrychnitskaya” subway station in Minsk. Witnesses have informed Euroradio about it. 

The reason for the explosion is still unknown; rescuers have set off for the accident site. There are injured people. Ambulances are working.

Photo and video: Іllya Malіnouskі, Gluctim.