MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. Response teams looked into about 60 reports that explosives were planted in establishments, shopping malls and transport facilities around the Russian capital on Tuesday, an emergency source told TASS.
"About 60 threats about potential bomb blasts in courts, shopping malls, subway stations and educational facilities were reported throughout the day. Most of them were checked and the information failed to be substantiated," the source said.
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- Unknown person sends in threat of bombs hidden in dozens of Moscow subway stations
- Bomb threats pour into hospitals and schools throughout St. Petersburg
- Bomb threats to Moscow’s renowned cathedral, major shopping mall exposed as hoaxes
- Hermitage undergoes security sweep following bomb scare
- Anonymous bomb scare sweeping 12 Moscow courts, ends up as false alarm
- St. Petersburg courts undergo evacuations due to renewed bomb threats
- More anonymous bomb threats pour into Moscow courts
- Bomb scare descends on schools in Far East, turning out to be false alarm
- Russia’s Supreme Court evacuated after bomb threat
- Moscow’s renowned landmark cathedral receives bomb threat
- Following week-long bomb scare wave in Moscow, all threats proven to be hoaxes
- Bomb scare wave flooding courts, schools and hospital turns out to be hoax
- Five more courts in Moscow cleared out due to bomb scare
- Bomb threats continue to pour into Moscow schools, over 10,000 evacuated
- New bomb threats clear out eight Moscow courts, on-site inspection underway
- Bomb scare wave continues: Ransom threats emailed to St. Petersburg courts
- Bomb scare at southwestern Moscow school turned out to be hoax
- Bomb scare prompts evacuation of students and teachers from Moscow school
- Eight district courts in Moscow evacuated over bomb threats on Tuesday, says source
- At least 30 malls and 35 hospitals of St. Petersburg receive bomb threats — source
- District courts in Moscow, St. Petersburg evacuated over bomb threats
- Extortionists use flood of bomb scares to shake down Moscow courts for bitcoin profit
- St. Petersburg courts hit with wave of bomb threat calls
- Five Moscow courts get bomb threat calls
An unknown person reported that explosive devices had been planted at Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo Airports; in the building of the Russian Customs Academy in Lyubertsy outside the capital; the Vegas, Belaya Dacha and Mega shopping malls in the Moscow Region; as well as in the Rio shopping mall in southwestern Moscow, the Russian FSB Academy and at about 30 stations throughout the Moscow subway system.
In addition, the Russian Supreme Court received an anonymous bomb threat. Detectives and canine experts checked the specified buildings and found no explosives there. The bomb threat information turned out to be a false alarm.
Bomb scares were also investigated at 10 district courts and 20 schools in Moscow. The threat failed to be substantiated, so the courts have gone back to business.
A warning of hidden explosives planted at 30 Moscow subway stations was previously reported.
On November 28, a bomb scare wave descended upon Moscow courts, schools, kindergartens and other facilities in the Russian capital, including the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which had three such incidents, but ultimately, all the threats turned out to be hoaxes. A total of about 600 facilities had been inspected. According to TASS’ law enforcement source, these racketeers, who are anonymously sending bomb threats to Moscow courts and other facilities in the Russian capital are doing it from overseas, quite possibly from Ukraine. In most cases, the extortionists demanded that ransom money be transferred to them in bitcoins so that they would not to carry out their criminal intentions.