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UN chief saddened by Minsk metro blast
Updated: 2011-04-12 08:57
(Xinhua)
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday said that he was saddened by the deadly explosion in a metro station in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and conveyed his sincerest condolences to the people of Belarus.
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Ban "conveys his sincerest condolences to the people of Belarus and, in particular, to the families of the victims," the statement said. "He wishes those injured a speedy recovery."
Eleven people were killed and 126 others were wounded in a blast that struck Minsk's Oktyabrskaya station, a key transit in the capital's subway system, at an after-work rush hour, reports said.
The cause of the blast remained unknown, but President Alexander Lukashenko said he did not rule out the possibility of outside forces plotting behind it, the reports said.
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