Russian woman dies after explosion husband says was caused by bom b in mobile phone

ChrisD(RJ) chrisd at russiajournal.com
Sun Jun 2 07:07:14 PDT 2002


Russian woman dies after explosion husband says was caused by bomb in mobile phone

MOSCOW (AP) - A 23-year-old woman died Saturday after an explosion in her home just outside Moscow that her husband said was caused by a bomb planted in a mobile phone he had found at a market, Russian media reported.

The woman's husband, Alexei Trishin, 23, was also seriously wounded in the explosion, according to reports. He told investigators the blast went off when his wife turned on the phone that he had found Friday at a market near a subway station at the end of a Moscow rail line.

Ramis Sapparov, deputy prosecutor for the town of Lubertsy where the explosion occurred, confirmed to Russian RTR television that there had been a blast in the home but declined to comment on how it had been set off.

Trishin ran out of his house after the blast asking neighbors for help, but his wife died before rescue personnel arrived.

Russia's domestic security agency was investigating the explosion along with other authorities, given the advanced knowledge it would require to manufacture such a kind of explosive device, according to reports.

Police weren't immediately available for comment.



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