DHAKA: An explosion ripped through a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Sunday, killing at least 10 people.

Russian news agencies said, reports The Straits Times.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility after Sunday’s explosion.

The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. An attack by a female suicide bomber in the same Russian city on October 21 killed seven people.

If the explosion is found to have been another strike by Islamist militants, it will bolster fears of attacks as Russia prepares to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi in less than six weeks’ time.

On Friday, a car bomb killed three people in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk.

Volgograd is a city of around 1 million people, about 430 miles northeast of Sochi.

BDST: 1605 HRS, DEC 29, 2013
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor