Bomb Defused in St. Petersburg as 8 Held in Connection With Metro Attack<br />Many militants who have traveled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State or other militant groups have come from Osh, and an investigator told Kommersant, a Russian business daily,<br />that Mr. Dzhalilov could have fallen under the influence of one of the terrorist organizations in Syria that has recruited Uzbeks.<br />It said the explosive device, found in an apartment in St. Petersburg, was identical to the one the suicide bomber, Akbarzhon A. Dzhalilov,<br />planted at the Vosstaniya Square station before he blew himself up between the Sennaya Square and the Technology Institute stations.<br />The investigators found burned sugar among the bomb components, a sign<br />that Mr. Dzhalilov may have been trained by the Islamic State in Syria, Fontanka.ru reported.<br />By IVAN NECHEPURENKOAPRIL 6, 2017<br />ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — The Russian security services disarmed an explosive device<br />and detained eight people on Thursday in connection with a suicide attack on a metro train that killed 13 people on Monday.<br />Investigators discovered tinfoil, double-sided tape and other components of explosive devices in an apartment Mr. Dzhalilov rented in northeastern St. Petersburg,<br />but there has been little to explain what turned a 22-year-old Russian with Uzbek roots into a suicide bomber.<br />Mr. Dzhalilov had lived in St. Petersburg since 2011, after obtaining Russian citizenship through his father.<br />Mr. Dzhalilov went to Kyrgyzstan in February, and from there tried to travel to Syria via Turkey, the newspaper reported.
