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Moscow Says St. Petersburg Suspect Was Suicide Bomber From Kyrgyzstan

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Published April 4, 2017 at 4:47 PM EDT

Fourteen people were killed and many more injured in Russia's second-largest city. According to Russian authorities, the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber originally from the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Nathan Hodge of The Wall Street Journal, who gives us an update from St. Petersburg.

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