Three killed by bomb in Moscow

MOSCOW - A bomb went off on a train travelling between Moscow and St Petersburg yesterday, killing three people and wounding six, an emergencies ministry official said. "It was a bomb which was hidden in the toilets of one of the carriages," a duty officer said. He said the train, heading for St Petersburg, was near Torbino station in the Novgorod region, north-west of Moscow, when the blast occurred.