Explosions in Dnepropetrovsk Centre today

[Kuna]

News is just breaking now...

http://gorod.dp.ua/news/71978

[Kuna]

Rough translated text from the link above...  just terrible.



Explosions in the center of Dnipropetrovsk injured 27 people (updated)   
Dnepropetrovsk in a panic, according to official figures there was four of the explosion, 27 people injured.   

Posted at 14:50:   25 of the injured were hospitalized.  13 people were injured by the explosion around 11:50 at the streetcar stop at the prospect of Karl Marx.

  Another 11 people, including nine children were injured in the second explosion.  All of them were hospitalized.

  3 people were injured as a result of third explosion - near the main entrance to the park Globa.  One of them hospitalized.

  Karl Marx Avenue is blocked.  Traffic on the left bank is difficult.

  Posted at 14:20:
  Injured taken to the regional hospital.  Mechnikov and obsespecheny everything you need for treatment.  Governor Alexander Vilkul, who attended the zasedenii Cabinet in Kiev, an urgent visit to Dnipropetrovsk.

  Posted at 14:10:  The prosecutor of Dnipropetrovsk region opened a criminal case in connection with bombings in the city for hours .2 Art.  258 of the Criminal Code (terrorist act).  This was announced by the spokesperson of the Prosecutor General Yuri Boychenko.

  According to Boichenko, traveled to Dnepropetrovsk Task Force, headed by Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko.

 The group consists of Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Voytsishen and the first deputy head of the SBU, Peter Shatkovsky.

  Posted at 13:40:   Ambulance, rescue and police do not have time to come in one scene, an explosion occurs in the next point.  Closed circle, even the latest explosion occurred at the site of the first.

  Citizens in a panic for two hours powerful explosions rocked Dnepropetrovsk.  Emergency occur in public places in the city center's prospectus.

  The last explosion occurred in the 13-20 in the "Ozerki."

  The first bomb exploded today at 11-50 at the tram stop street.  Serov.  According to official information from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the first explosion injured five people: three women and two men.  Injuries - varying degrees of severity.

  The second explosion occurred in the 12-30 near the cinema "Rodina".  According to preliminary information from witnesses in both cases the urn exploded in public places.  Karl Marx Avenue is blocked.  On-site work ambulance, emergency and police.

  A third explosion was heard in the city center in 12-40, transmit witnesses.

 A fourth explosion occurred near the main entrance to the park to them.  Lazar Globa at 12-50.

  Fifth Avenue in the Karl Marx Theater, Gorky seriously injured a passerby.

  According to unconfirmed information, another explosion occurred near the railway station.

  Posted at 13:00:   Dozens of people were injured.  The townspeople panicked, mobile in town - the network overloaded.

  According to preliminary information from witnesses in both cases the urn exploded in public places.  Karl Marx Avenue is blocked.  On-site work ambulance, emergency and police.  From the street, Serov ambulances took three of the victims have suffered and Valentine Avenue.

  Also received conflicting information about the new explosions at bus stops.  The information is checked.



 

[Shadow]

International news will try to pinpoint it as protest against Yulia Timochenko.
Local authorities might want to check if they already paid their roof for the European Championship Football that will start shortly.

[newjason]

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vitaliy Zakharchenko urgently fly to Kiev, where on Friday, a number of explosions. "Now I will fly to the scene in order to deal with the situation, I will come to the site will deal" - he said, leaving the government meeting


What do they mean by this?  They expect more bombings in Kiev Today?


Source : http://gorod.dp.ua/news/71979

[Muzh]

Oh boy. I wonder how soon long will it take to find the culprits; who will (of course) have ties with the Bat'kivshchynia Party.

I smell a desperate Yanukonvict trying to find an excuse to crack down on potential protests during the EURO2012.

[Hammer2722]

Looks like Yanuconvict is looking to draw attention away fromm all the news about Tymoshenko's abuse in prison. What better way than to suddenly find that the culprits belong to her party. Smells so much like desperation!!!!

[Kuna]

FWIW... my wife's initial reaction is that it is most likely more "bored youths" wanting to make big news,  Like the Dnepropetrovsk mass murders a few years ago.

She said, "These bombs are bad, but not so serious.  If it was professional people would have been killed and they would have targeted peak hour,  not during the day."

She commented on there being no big events and "no war at the moment"...

If nothing else seeing her reaction and hearing her thoughts is interesting.

[Muzh]

Hope she's right.

[Hammer2722]

Yes, another reason why I don't believe it was a terrorist attack. If it was, I'm sure there would have been fatalities vice some injuries with a few more serious..

[Muzh]

Kuna:
 
The word on the street: (thru google translate)
 
 favori _ 27.04.2012 17:14  Something is very similar bombings in Moscow on the eve of the second Chechen and "soak in the toilet." see specialists shkoly.A one who will be wet-clear.  **********************************************************************  Ivanivska _ 27.04.2012 17:02  And is it not clear who organized these "terrorist" as if explosions? No claims, demands, etc. No, no strong explosions and explosion no one but a few - all done in order to necessarily draw attention to this and according to distract from other issues - well, such as beating Tymoshenko and the opposition blocking parliament. And arranged all these explosions one who is beneficial (to divert attention from Julia) - those who are now trying to unlock the Parliament and to urgently take the oath appointed Yanukovychnm and RYHAMY, Lutkovska. Why so urgent - that Karpachova tells the truth about beating Tymoshenko and even shows photos of her bruises, and therefore Karpachova should close your mouth - that is, change it to "obedient" to regionals Lutkovska!    ***************************************************************************    Roman Danyluk _ 04/27/2012 16:49  It's yet to come up with a name for terrorist organizations such trouble. Let me you tell you think no one is surprised that the organization will be of nationalist plies and organized mainly of boys from Lviv and Ternopil.
"Dear Government" Think about it, because your stupidity has no limits and something napartachyte)))  ***********************************************************************   This is me      You can tell the cynicism from the Average Ivan.

[Muzh]

Didn't take long.
 
 Officials Blame Ukraine Bombs on Terrorists

Yuri V. Boychenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office, said by telephone that it was too early to make firm conclusions, but investigators were operating on the assumption that the bombings were the work of terrorists.
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/world/europe/officials-blame-ukraine-bombs-on-terrorists.html?_r=2

[Kuna]

Wife is listening to the news now...

Current news stories have said: 

They had blocked the mobile phone network in case there were more unexploded devices and after an initial search have found two more bombs, that either failed to explode or didn't have a chance to explode before the mobile phone network was switched off..

Could be more serious than she first thought...  they are continuing to search.

[Muzh]

Yea, I asked the wife to call her family for more news.

[JohnDearGreen]

Possibly response to a draft introduced in Parliament a few days ago to counter terrorism by introduction of Russian style "managed democracy".   The new law would grant enormous power to the police and secret service to harrass any opposing to the government movements.
http://siteground239.com/~ukrainee/forum/index.php?topic=10550.0;wap2
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=38882&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=13&cHash=0ba0d9eabc0b4f29889f21e7a0f1e8c7

[Kuna]

Yea, I asked the wife to call her family for more news.

Muzh,

The online news networks are flooded with reports,  your wife will probably get more information from the news because a few of my wife's friends have been online and they aren't hearing as much info there as my wife is hearing here...

[tfcrew]

A network of explosions like this is definitely  a *terrorist attack*.
I would call it that without a doubt. [Certainly no accident.]
Who exactly were the terrorists remains the question     ....????

[ECOCKS]

A network of explosions like this is definitely  a *terrorist attack*.
I would call it that without a doubt. [Certainly no accident.]
Who exactly were the terrorists remains the question     ....????

It's Ukraine. Won't surprise me if it turns out to be Yankyurkovick.....

[The Natural]

...or the fingerprints of CIA/MI6/Mossad. Destabilization is all the rage nowadays...

[JohnDearGreen]

In Odessa yesterday police patrol arrested a 32-year-old man with 200 grams of TNT.
http://ua.korrespondent.net/ukraine/events/1345020-v-odesi-zatrimali-cholovika-z-vibuhivkoyu

[tfcrew]

.. 200 grams of TNT.

IOW ...That's one stick of dynamite.

[Hammer2722]

Was there ever any doubt that the authorities would "catch" someone? I'm sure that this poor dude will "confess" to the crimes as well. LOL

[Faux Pas]

IOW ...That's one stick of dynamite.

I'm too lazy to look it up but I thinks thats less than 1/2 stick. Might equate to a pack of cherry bombs

[JohnDearGreen]

Moscow airport bomb was equivalent of 2000-5000g TNT.

[tfcrew]

I'm too lazy to look it up ...

I had already....

Dynamite is usually sold in the form of sticks about 8 in (20 cm) long and about 1.25 in (3.2 cm) in diameter, with a weight of about 0.5 lb (0.23 kg).^[1] Other sizes also exist. The maximum shelf life of nitroglycerin-based dynamite is recommended as one year from the date of manufacture under good storage conditions.^[1]
Dynamite is a high explosive, which means it detonates rather than deflagrates. While trinitrotoluene (TNT) is used as the standard for gauging explosive power, dynamite has more than a 60% greater energy density than TNT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite

Having explosives w/out permission is not permitted!!

[Faux Pas]

I had already....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite

Having explosives w/out permission is not permitted!!

Most chemical majors could find explosive components to equal a stick of TNT from many ordinary household items.

My point here is not a debate but rather a statement that a bomb builder wouldn't achieve desired results from a mere stick of dynamite. Likely isn't the man they're looking for.