At least 78 people have become ill in a gas attack on a store in St Petersburg, Russia. Dozens of those suffering breathing difficulties and sickness have been taken to hospital. The Emergency Situations Ministry said the shop was among three stores targeted. The mystery gas was released in one of the three stores, the Federal Security Service said. Employees in two other stores found unexplained canisters and cardboard boxes with wires and timers.Ministry spokesman Andrei Alyabyev said: "Suspicions containers with pipes were found in two other shops, they are being defused." Russian media reported the containers had been set up with timing mechanisms to go off as time-bombs. Sixty-six of the people affected are receiving hospital treatment. None of them are said to be in a life-threatening condition. The stores, belonging to the Maksidom chain, specialise in home goods.
| I'd like to say that only the Lions of Islam™ are capable of such viciousness, but I guess there are enough other nutters in the world that it's only probably Shamil's krazed killers. |