NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia. March 15 (Interfax) - A senior Federal Security Service (FSB) official excluded the possibility that an explosion in Novosibirsk on Friday, that injured a woman and did minor damage to a building, was a terrorist attack.
"It's not terror. Absolutely not," Konstantin Kolbasov, deputy head of the FSB branch for the Novosibirsk region, told Interfax.
A woman was injured by glass fragments caused by the explosion, which occurred outside of a building. The blast smashed a window in a pharmacy inside the building. A cafe, situated in the same building, had the outside sign with its name on it destroyed.
Marina Kinzhalova, a senior aide to the regional criminal investigation agency, told Interfax no criminal case had been opened yet. "All of the circumstances of the incident are being studied and necessary tests are being conducted that will form the basis for a decision," she said.
Forensic experts finished work on the explosion site.