lament gathered in a Memorial by a Belarusian underground station entrance are groping to find an explanation for the massive explosion that tore a Minsk metro stationkilling 12 people and injuring more than 200, earlier this week, reports David Stern.The Belarus is on high alert, after what officials now believe was a terrorist attack.
According to them, that a bomb exploded close to 1800 local time, at rush hour, in the Oktyabrska?a - one of the most popular of Minsk station.
The explosive device, which was filled with nails and ball bearings and was equivalent to 5 kg of TNT, was placed under a bench on the platform, they add. It may have been triggered by remote control.
The Minister of the Interior, Anatoly Kuleshov, said that the purpose of the assailants was to "kill as many people as possible."
MemorialOn Tuesday, lament gathered by the entries in the Metro station, where a spontaneous Memorial had arisen.
Each time someone would be advanced to wear a flower on one of the many rapid rise of piles, or in the light of a votive candle.
People stood as if anchored to the ground, to the Metro stationIn a niche in the street, there was a more formal sanctuary - six white tables with the names of those who were killed simply printed on them. The front was a small, red platform where pushing an even larger bunch of flowers.
The crowd, who sometimes grew to hundreds, has been largely silent.
People stood as if anchored to the ground, to the monument fortune, their faces etched with disbelief.
"I'm in shock," said Lidiya Vintskevich, a journalism student who works at a local radio station. "I can't believe that something like this could happen in our city, we are so small."
Belarusian security, which are still known by their acronym for the Soviet era, the KGB, said that possible a composite photo of the author is now distributed.
"Man is Slavic, up to 27 years and rationale in appearance." He was dressed in a brown coat and a wool hat, "of the KGB Chairman Vadim Zaitsev said, adding that the suspect was hired to the bomb."
Assistant Attorney General of the country also stated that several people had been arrested, but gave no further details.
"No meaning".Belarus came to political and economic pressure in recent months.
The United States and the European Union slapped sanctions on the Government of Belarus, after he took measures on the opposition of the country after the presidential elections last year.
President Lukashenko has promised to turn Belarus "inside out" to find those responsible forPresident Alexander Lukashenko and other senior officials were forbidden to travel to the West.
Meanwhile, Central Bank of the country runs currency, and many analysts predict a strong devaluation of the currency, the ruble.
President Lukashenko already governs what is regarded as more strict authoritarian Europe State. Many Belarusians support him, however, in part, in gratitude for stability and law and order that it provides.
Lukashenko has promised to turn Belarus "inside out" to find those responsible.
In the comments just after the explosion, he also said that he could be an attempt to destabilize the country and that it was perhaps an "existing abroad."
Many Belarusians are nevertheless difficult to imagine who would benefit from such an attack.
"I can't imagine why anyone would do this," said Stepan, a local businessman who asked not to use his family name. "I can't imagine what they would or that they hope to achieve." There is absolutely no logic. ?
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