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10 killed as Russian train derails
At least 10 people have been killed and 130 injured after a passenger train derailed between Moscow and St Petersburg.
The federal Investigative Committee said the three rear cars of an express train from Moscow to St Petersburg went off the tracks in Novgorod province.
A spokesman for state-run Russian Railways, Dmitry Pertsev, said four cars derailed and the cause of the derailment was not known.
Russian news agencies cited unidentified officials as saying a small crater was found at the site of the wreck, sparking speculation that it could have been caused by a bomb.
A bomb blast on the same line in 2007 derailed a passenger train and injured 27 people.
The line between Russia's capital and its second city is heavily travelled and trains are often crowded.
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