(31 Oct 2007) SHOTLIST
Togliatti
1. Wide of police and ambulance at scene of explosion
2. Wide of crowd gathered at scene scene of explosion
3. Wide of police around bus where bomb was planted
4. Pan from police officer talking to people to journalists at scene of blast
5. Wide of scene, truck moving in background
6. Mid shot police officer asking people to move away from scene
7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vyacheslav Yerepov, Father of girl wounded in the explosion:
"She was sitting next to a window, so when she recovered consciousness she was already on the ground, not understanding what happened. Her hair was burnt, her boots were destroyed by the fire."
8. Mid shot police at scene
9. Wide pan of scene
Moscow
10. Wide exterior of General Prosecutors Office
11. Close of sign on building
12. Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office, outside building
13. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Markin, Spokesman for the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office:
"According to the preliminary information, an explosive device was detonated inside the bus. A criminal case has been initiated under Article 105 part 2, "murder of 2 or more people", Article 222: "storage and transportation of weapons", and Article 205 part 3 "terrorist act". To provide assistance and direct investigation, a group of detectives led by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastyrkin, are on their way to the site of the tragedy."
14. Mid shot gates closing
STORYLINE
A powerful bomb ripped through a passenger bus on Wednesday morning in a central Russian city, killing eight people and injuring more than 50 others, emergency officials said.
Investigators were trying to determine whether the explosive device was carried by a passenger or had been planted somewhere inside or beneath the bus in Togliatti, according to Russian news agencies.
"To provide assistance and direct investigation, a group of detectives led by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastyrkin, are on their way to the site of the tragedy," Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office told AP Television.
A local emergency official, said that eight people had died and 53 suffered from burns and shrapnel wounds. Russian media said that one child was among the dead.
The explosion, which shattered windows on nearby residential buildings, occurred near a bus stop in the city centre as people were going to work.
A group of college students had stepped off the bus just seconds before the blast - about 20 students were among the injured, Russian television reported.
Vyacheslav Yerepov, whose daughter Olga was among the victims said his daughter "was sitting next to a window, so when she recovered consciousness she was already on the ground, not understanding what happened."
Togliatti is headquarters to Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ and has a reputation for gang violence as varying groups have competed for control over the lucrative state-owned factory.
A factory spokesman could not say whether there were factory workers among the victims.
With nearly a month remaining before crucial parliamentary elections, the blast raised fears of similar violence that has occurred before other elections in the past.
Some Russian politicians immediately speculated that the blast was an attempt to sow social unrest.
In 1999, just three months before national elections, several residential buildings in Moscow and other Russian towns exploded, killing hundreds.
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