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11-29-2008, 09:53 PM
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Grenade in Passenger's Pocket Kills Family of Three in St Petersburg Taxi
An F-1 hand grenade went off inside a Lada Priora private taxi about fifty metres from the entrance to Udelnaya metro station in northern St Petersburg, at around 8:55 on the morning of Tuesday, November 25, 2008, during the rush hour. Three passengers were killed: Evgeny Simanov, 27, a former army officer working in real-estate law, his partner Maria Sandalova, 27, who headed a department at the investment holding KIT Finance, and their four-year-old daughter Eva. The driver, Dmitry Korotkov, 22, survived with severe shrapnel wounds. Investigators concluded the grenade had been in Simanov's pocket or on his belt, since his injuries were by far the worst, and that it detonated accidentally; terrorism was ruled out the same day. A criminal case was opened under the article covering murder by generally dangerous means, which is the standard procedural filing, and the city police chief said publicly there had been no terrorism and no crime. Investigators did examine documents found at the family's flat showing Simanov owed substantial debts he could not settle, but no source concludes that the explosion was deliberate.
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