BAKU -- Seven people were killed and at least 30 injured when a bomb explosion ripped through the carriage of an underground railway train in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, the Health Ministry said. The Interior Ministry said the bomb, apparently planted under a seat, exploded in the second carriage of the metro train at 8:30A.M. local time Sunday as it passed through a tunnel. Police said a boy, two men and three women were among those killed. The sex of the seventh victim remained to be established. In a similar explosion, 13 people were killed on the Baku metro last March. Rescue operations to evacuate the wounded and others trapped in the train were hampered by heavy smoke. Turan news agency quoted the head of the medical team handling the crisis as saying that 11 people were undergoing surgery while 19 others were being treated for burns. Azerbaijan has been in conflict with separatist ethnic Armenians in the technically Azeri region of Nagorno-Karabakh since 1988. The prolonged conflict has caused thousands of deaths.
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