Deadly Russian bombing kills

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At least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd.The blast comes one day after 17 people died in another suicide attack at the central station in the city.Security has been tightened at railway stations and airports across Russia.

Moscow is concerned that militants could be ramping up violence in the run-up to the 2014 winter Olympic Games in the city of Sochi in February.

The Olympics venue is close to Russia’s volatile north Caucasus region, and the BBC’s Moscow correspondent Daniel Sandford says it was always risky staging the Games so near to the troubled republics of Chechnya and Dagestan.

Russia’s foreign ministry did not blame any particular group but called for international solidarity in the fight against “an insidious enemy that can only be defeated together”.

Regional Governor Sergei Bozhenov said the bombings were a “serious test” for all Volgograd residents and all Russians.

 The president of the International Olympic Committee has expressed full confidence that Russian authorities will deliver “safe and secure” Games in Sochi.

The latest explosion took place near a busy market in Volgograd’s Dzerzhinsky district.

Maksim Akhmetov, a Russian TV reporter who was at the scene of the blast, said the trolleybus was packed with people going to work in the morning rush hour.

He described the scene as “terrible”, adding that the bus was “ravaged” and that there were “bodies everywhere, blood on the snow”.

Witnesses described a scene of carnage following the blast

The explosion was the second in the city in 24 hours. A blast hit a train station on Sunday.

The figures given for the number of dead and injured are still fluctuating, but investigators and the Russian health ministry told a news conference that 14 people had been killed.

At least 20 others were injured, and other patients were in a bad condition with burns, with multiple injuries typical of blast-induced wounds.

The injured include a pregnant woman, two 16 year olds and a baby aged about six months whose parents are assumed dead.

The regional governor has announced five days of mourning for all the victims.

 In response to this second blast in less than 24 hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered security measures to be tightened across Russia and in particular in Volgograd.

For local citizens these attacks have felt them with fear to leave their homes and deep mourning in their hearts.