Etravel Alerts: Moscow & St. Petersburg – Bomb threat made against 167the Nevsky Express train. Authorities will check all Nevsky Express high-speed trains for explosives before they depart their stations in Moscow and St. Petersburg until Nov 27.
RT News Line Nov 18: On Friday, more than 600 hundred passengers have been evacuated from a St. Petersburg-Moscow train over a bomb threat, RIA Novosti reports Friday. According to police, shortly before the departure of the train an anonymous person called police saying there was a bomb on the train. All the passengers were evacuated and police began searching the carriages. The trains have been among regular targets for terror attacks in Russia. In 2009 the bombing of the Nevsky Express traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg claimed the lives of 28 people.