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An injured person is helped by emergency services outside Sennaya Ploshchad subway station.

Live Blog: Deadly St. Petersburg Subway Blast

Follow all of the latest developments as they happen.

Final Summary

-- An explosion ripped through a subway car in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens of others in what officials suspect was a terrorist attack.

-- An undetonated explosive device was found at another subway station, Ploshchad Vosstaniya.

-- President Vladimir Putin said he has been briefed by security officials on the incident and that authorities were examining a possible terrorism link.

-- Western governments expressed condolences and solidarity in the aftermath of the attack.

As does NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg:

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson offers his condolences:

Multiple Casualties In St. Petersburg Metro Blast
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Multiple Casualties In St. Petersburg Metro Blast

Russian officials said several people were killed in St. Petersburg following an explosion in the city's metro system. Ambulances and helicopters were seen evacuating some of the injured on April 3. (AP, Reuters)

U.S. Embassy in Russia offers condolences to victims and their families of the St. Petersburg subway blast.

Kremlin pool journalist Dmitry Smirnov posts video of Russian President Vladimir Putin at his meeting with Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka commenting on today's "tragedy."

Some background on previous attacks from our news desk:

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Suicide bombers have struck several times in Moscow and other Russian cities in the last two decades, with insurgents based in Chechnya or other parts of Russia's North Caucasus often blamed for or claiming reponsibility for the attacks.

In the most recent major attack of that kind, two suicide bombings on successive days in December 2013 killed more than 30 people in the southern city of Vologograd.

A bomb blast killed 27 people on a train en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 2009, but there have been no major attacks in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city.

Latest update from our news desk:

Andrei Kibitov, a spokesman for the St. Petersburg governor’s office, told state-run Rossia-24 television that "according to prelinary information, 10 people were killed" in the blast, which triggered immediate fears of terrorist attack.

Kibitov said on Twitter that around 50 people were injured and that 17 emergency response teams had been mobilized. More would be activated later, he said.

Reaction from the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to the St. Petersburg subway blast.

Russia's General Prosecutor has declared the St. Petersburg subway blast a terrorist attack.

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