St Petersburg explosion: One person killed and at least 16 injured in cafe blast

One person was killed and 16 were injured in an explosion that took place in a cafe in Russia’s St Petersburg on Sunday (2 April).

The Russian Ministry of the Interior later identified the man killed in the explosion as Vladlen Tatarsky, a famous military blogger with more than 560,000 followers on Telegram who was reportedly taking part in an event when the cafe was hit.

“We’ll defeat everyone, we’ll kill everyone, we’ll rob everyone we need to. Everything will be as we like it,” Vladlen Tatarsky was recorded saying in a video clip on social media.

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