St. Petersburg Bomber Said to Be Man From Kyrgyzstan; Death Toll Rises<br />By IVAN NECHEPURENKO and NEIL MacFARQUHARAPRIL 4, 2017<br />ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — A man from Kyrgyzstan who had a Russian passport was responsible for the deadly subway blast in St. Petersburg, the Russian<br />and Kyrgyz authorities said Tuesday, as the toll from the attack rose to 14 dead and more than 60 wounded.<br />One unidentified source told the Interfax news agency<br />that after a trip home in February, Mr. Dzhalilov, a car mechanic, returned to St. Petersburg sullen and withdrawn.<br />According to Russian news reports, the man’s father, who had been working in Russia, brought him to St. Petersburg as a teenager<br />to start working to help pay for a new house after their old neighborhood in Osh had been devastated by ethnic riots.<br />The blast occurred just as the train departed the Sennaya Square station, one of the<br />busiest transportation hubs in central St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city.<br />Neighbors and others interviewed by Russian news organizations said Mr. Dzhalilov thrived in Russia,<br />starting as a metal worker in an auto repair shop and becoming an accomplished mechanic.<br />Kyrgyz officials said he was a member of the Uzbek minority in the southern city of Osh<br />who received Russian citizenship in 2011, around the time he moved to St. Petersburg.
