An explosive device has killed at least 18 people and injured 40 others at a vocational college in Crimea in what Russian officials called a possible terrorist attack. An explosive device has killed at least 18 people and injured 40 others at a vocational college in Crimea in what Russian officials called a possible terrorist attack. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the blast at the college in the city of Kerch in eastern Crimea was caused by an unidentified explosive device. Emergency services at the scene (Kerch FM News/AP)Sergei Melikov, a deputy chief of the Russian National Guard, said the explosive device was homemade. Olga Grebennikova, director of the college, told KerchNet TV that men armed with automatic rifles burst into the college and “killed everyone they saw”.

Source: Irish Independent October 17, 2018 12:18 UTC