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Kremlin says explosion at Crimean college that killed 10, injured dozens could be terrorism
A blast at a college in the Crimean port city of Kerch killed 10 people and injured dozens on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported, citing sources.
Russian state media said the blast took place at a college and most of the victims are thought to be young.
The Associated Press reported that the Kremlin is looking into if the event is terror-related, but initial reports cited a gas canister explosion.
A blast at a college in the Crimean port city of Kerch killed 10 people and injured dozens on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported.
"Initial information is that a gas canister blew up," the TASS news agency quoted an unnamed law enforcement source as saying.
But a later statement from the Kremlin indicated the explosion could be terror-related, the Associated Press tweeted. Russian media reported that anti-terrorism police have been dispatched to the scene.
Investigators are now searching the building for additional explosive devices, the AP reported.
The victims "are students, children are among the most affected," a Crimean official told Russia's Interfax news agency.
An employee at a hospital in Kerch was quoted as saying that 18 people had already been admitted with injuries from the explosion, and that doctors are expecting around 50 more wounded people to be brought in.
"There are already lots of people in the emergency room, and in the operating theater," TASS quoted the employee as saying.
Photographs from the scene of the blast posted by local media outlet Kerch.FM showed ground floor windows of the two-story building had been blown out, and debris from the building was lying on the floor outside.
Ambulances and firefighters were at the scene. One person could be seen on a stretcher being carried onto a bus.
The technical college provides vocational training to teenage pupils.
Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014, prompting international condemnation and Western sanctions. Kerch is the point on the peninsula where a bridge linking Crimea to Russia makes landfall on the Crimean side.
Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the bridge to road traffic in May this year, getting behind the wheel of a truck to drive it across the bridge.
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