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Moscow, June 1 (Xinhua) — The blowing up of bridges in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions has been classified as a terrorist attack, Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said on Sunday.
“On May 31, 2025, at 10:50 p.m., on the Vygonichi-Pilshino railway section in the Bryansk region, as a result of an explosion, the structure of the road bridge collapsed, the debris of which fell on a passenger train passing underneath. As a result of the incident, people were injured and killed,” noted S. Petrenko.
In addition, she reported that in the Zheleznogorsk district of the Kursk region on June 1, 2025, at about 03:00, a railway bridge was also blown up, causing a passing train to fall onto the road. As a result of the incident, the driver and his two assistants were injured.
In the statement, S. Petrenko noted that, on the instructions of the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, criminal cases on the facts of incidents in the Bryansk and Kursk regions were transferred to the Main Investigative Department of the agency.
“The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia has instructed investigators from the Main Investigative Department of the agency to investigate the criminal cases on these incidents. At present, employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia are working at the scene of the incident, conducting urgent investigative actions aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident,” S. Petrenko summed up. -0-