Buses carrying the bodies of the recent train wreck victims move from the airport to downtown St. Petersburg, late Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. The rear three cars of the Nevsky Express, one of Russia's fastest trains, derailed on a remote stretch of track late Friday as it sped from Moscow to St. Petersburg, killing some passengers and trapping others in the jumbled wreckage that authorities blamed on a terrorist bomb.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
Photograph by: Dmitry Lovetsky
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Other relatives visited scores of injured victims in hospitals while investigators tried to determine who was behind what would be Russia's deadliest terrorist attack outside the violence-plagued North Caucasus provinces in five years.

The rear three cars of the Nevsky Express, one of Russia's fastest trains, derailed on a remote stretch of track late on Friday as it sped from Moscow to St Petersburg, killing some passengers and trapping others in the jumbled wreckage. The head of Russia's Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, said an explosive device detonated beneath the train, gouging a crater in the rail bed and pulling the tail cars off the tracks.

Emergency situations minister Sergei Shoigu said at least 25 people were killed and 26 were unaccounted for. A total of 104 people were hospitalised early yesterday.

Relatives were identifying victims yesterday at a hospital morgue in Tver, about 400km northwest of Moscow.

The state-run railway company Russian Railways said traffic was fully restored yesterday after repairs on the busy line between the capital and St Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city.