Vehicles of emergency services are parked near a supermarket after an explosion in St Petersburg. Photo: ReutersA blast ripped through a supermarket in Russia's St Petersburg on Wednesday (local time) evening, injuring at least 10 shoppers, investigators said. Nobody was killed in the explosion, and it was not immediately clear what the motive for it was. Russian media reports said the bomb had been hidden in a locker where shoppers leave their belongings in a branch of the Perekrestok supermarket chain. "All possible versions of what has happened are being worked on," Alexander Klaus, the head of St Petersburg's investigative committee, told Reuters.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 27, 2017 22:52 UTC