A giant fireball has erupted in St Petersburg with 'huge' flames spotted following a blast in the Russian city
A giant fireball has erupted in St Petersburg with 'huge' flames spotted following a blast in the Russian city.
The incident appears to have happened in a forest area in Vsevolozhsk, a residential area around 24km east of St Petersburg. The explosion, according to state media, was caused by an erupting gas pipeline that runs through the Leningrad region. It's understood ambulance crews are working in the courtyard of the house. Meanwhile, according to local site tvzvezda, surgeons are operating on the victims close to the scene.
It comes after it emerged Moscow's commanders have secretly moved almost 100 air defence missiles from Belarus to Russia sparking fears of a bigger escalation in Ukraine including whether Vladimir Putin would use a dirty nuke bomb.
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