MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. The death toll in an explosion on the Crimean Bridge has risen to four, with the victims including a judge from Moscow’s Court of Arbitration, an emergency official told TASS on Tuesday.
"According to available information, the death toll has risen to four. The victims include Sergey Maslov, a judge from Moscow’s Court of Arbitration," the official said, adding that efforts to identify the victims were not over yet.
All four victims were riding in a car that ended up at the epicenter of the explosion. The press service of the Moscow Court of Arbitration could neither confirm nor deny reports of the judge’s death to TASS.
On Saturday morning, a truck exploded on the Crimean Bridge, collapsing two eastbound parts of its road section and subsequently setting ablaze a train of fuel tanks on the adjacent rail portion of the bridge. According to head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, Ukrainian intelligence agencies are behind the attack. Rail traffic has been restored on the bridge, which was also partly reopened for buses and automobiles. Two lanes of the road bridge have already reopened to cars, the railway traffic across the Crimean Bridge has been restored.