Bomb kills at least seven in Russia

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MOSCOW, Oct 31 (AFP): A bomb ripped through a bus in the southern Russian city of Tolyatti Wednesday killing at least seven people, including a child, police said.
The force of the blast at a road junction blew out the windows of a nearby residential block, the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted an official with the local rescue service, Andrei Derbenev, as saying.
Some 40 passengers, passers-by and nearby residents were injured by the explosion in Tolyatti, home to about 700,000 people and a centre of the Russian car industry, Derbenev was quoted as saying.
One medical official at the scene said the toll had risen to eight people.
"There is reason to believe that an explosive device was attached either to the bottom of the bus or to the floor inside," Interfax news agency said, quoting a Tolyatti police official.