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Russian investigators on Tuesday named the bomber behind the Saint Petersburg metro blast as Akbarjon Djalilov, adding that he had also planted a second bomb that was defused by the authorities.

Russian ground transport has also been hit by extremists before.

“And, definitely we are back to where we were some 10 or 12 years ago when these explosions unfortunately took place on a more or less regular basis”, he said. “The recent tragic events in St. Petersburg are the best confirmation of this”, Putin said at the meeting in Moscow. “Each of our nations is a potential target for terrorist attacks”.

The committee noted, “At this moment the investigators have no evidence of connection or acquaintance of the detained with executor of the terrorist action in the St. Petersburg metro”.

In previous reports, the Investigative Committee called the attack a suicide bombing. Since November 2015, they had engaged in recruiting other central Asian migrants for Islamic State and for another banned Islamist movement, the Nusra Front, its statement said.

“I followed the instructions”, Kaverin said.

“Investigators have identified a male suspect who set off an explosive device inside a metro train in Saint Petersburg: Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, born in 1995”.

Dzhalilov blew himself up on a busy subway line on Monday, killing himself and 13 others and wounding over 50 people.

A suicide bomber on a subway train in Russia’s second-largest city killed 14 and injured dozens on Monday.

A leading St. Petersburg news portal, Fontanka.ru, said materials used in the explosive device found Thursday matched those used by militants in Syria.

At Dzhalilov’s hometown of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan, his schoolteacher described him as “well brought up, calm and balanced”.

Kaverin said he had learned that in such situations, he needed to drive the train all the way to the next station. “A blast assessment study, as well as a genetic examination, will follow”, she said. They said his father worked as a panel beater in a car-repair shop.

The parents of Dhzalilov have arrived in St. Petersburg for questioning.

The discovery of the explosives raises the possibility that a string of bomb attacks was being planned in the city involving a group of plotters.

No one has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. She was fascinated by what motivated people and was so good at figuring them out. But parliament speaker Vyacheslav Volodin dismissed the statements as attention-getting devices and upbraided the politicians, saying “One must not use a tragedy to promote oneself”.