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Death toll of subway bombing climbs to 13

The toll of those killed by a bomb attack that occurred in the Minsk subway during Monday’s evening rush hour reached 13 in the early hours of Friday, BelaPAN said.

Anatol Makeychyk, who was born in 1954, died in the Sixth Minsk City Clinical Hospital, said the health ministry`s press office.

Mr. Makeychyk was a resident of Kalodzishchy several kilometers of Minsk.

As of Friday morning, as many as 161 continued receiving hospital treatment for wounds sustained in the bombing.

Twenty-one were said to be in serious condition, while 28 had moderate wounds and 112 light injuries.

Deputy Prosecutor General Andrey Shved told reporters on April 14 that five people had been arrested in connection with the bomb attack. He said that one of the arrested people was a man suspected of planting the bomb and detonating it and another was his suspected accomplice.

A health ministry official said on Thursday that eight victims would need artificial limbs. Many people suffered leg injuries because the explosive device was apparently planted under a bench, he said said.

A deputy head of the Main Military Clinical Medical Center noted that the blast was so powerful that most of the flying fragments of the bomb that hit people passed through their bodies.