St Petersburg Tube Train Bomb a Hoax?

Just been skyping my penpal in Russia who has told me that the bomb attack on the tube train at St Petersburg Station was a complete hoax set up by the emergency services to prove what a sterling job they do as they are one of the highest paid professions in Russia.
She said that everyone in Russia knows it was faked. She also said that her cousin recognised one of the "victims" as an actor immediately. When I queried how she knew for definite she said. take a look at youtube and it proves it.

How disgusting if true!

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After the gas attack in Syria followed a few hours later I was wondering if it had been Russian news spin too.
I felt a little ashamed about thinking it because the news coverage seemed very real

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If you Google "was the St. Petersburg tube train bomb a hoax" you get a list of sites/links.

If you scroll down, the 8th link is this one...

https://nodisinfo.com/smoke-bombs-us...-bombing-hoax/

If you scroll down in this site they maintain that the Stockholm truck disaster was a hoax, as was the London Westminster bridge disaster.
The woman who jumped off the bridge was a CGI dummy...and so on.

Scroll down and read the Readers Comments.

You want to believe this shite then fine.

There are some serious fruit cakes out there!

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Well, no-one is disputing the Stockholme and Syria atrocities are they?
Just take a look at the footage on youtube of one of the injured having a drink, or why there is not one bit of smoke from a supposed explosion within a metro carriage, or why people are still casually strolling by the incident. or why well known actors and an actress are there right in the thick of it.

I was as sceptical as both of you when she told me, but I still looked on youtube. For an explosion that just occurred, people are acting pretty blaise.

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I can understand why ordinary Russians may think all news is fake news, but worldwide media reports today say they have arrested 8 people. How far would you go with a training exercise?

It didn't look staged in the photos. I don't know why the images struck me as more upsetting than other recent tragedies, but they made me feel profoundly sad.

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More info here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39481067

And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_S..._Metro_bombing

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The photos I saw of this incident showed a pretty mangled railway carriage with the side blown out - it wouldn't, in that state fit inside the tube tunnel to make it an 'exercise'.

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Internet always yells fake about any disaster, you can find footage proves just about anything didn't really happen. I'm of the opinion there are some sick twisted people out there making this rubbish up. They have their own agenda what it is I don't want to imagine but I refuse to believe it.

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I'm confused now, was it a hoax or not?

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I don't think it was a hoax. That's all I know for sure.