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St Petersburg metro blast suspect likely born in central Asia

By Olga Dzyubenko and Denis Pinchuk
BISHKEK/ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Apr 4 (Reuters) The main suspect in a blast in a St Petersburg train carriage that killed 14 people and wounded 50 is a Russian citizen originally from mainly Muslim Kyrgyzstan, authorities there said today.
The perpetrator had radical Islamist links, Russian media cited law enforcement officials as saying, raising the possibility the attack could have been inspired by Islamic State, which has not struck a major city in Russia before.
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