A militia station in Yekaterinburg received a phone call at 9.20 PM yesterday about the bomb allegedly placed at the local railway station. In compliance with the existing rules, all passengers that happened to be there at that moment were evacuated and the overrunning train was placed on the first railway. The rescue team surveyed the area but found no explosives or suspicious-looking items either on the platforms or in the building. The railway started operating again at 10.30 PM.

‘There were no passengers on the premises during the surveying period,’ says Yulia Verkhovikh, PR Director of Sverdlovsk Region Railways.