Blast in Russian Mcdonald's, at least 5 injured

St Petersburg (Russia), Feb 19: An explosion caused by a suspected bomb in a McDonald's restaurant in Russia's second city of St Petersburg today injured at least five people, officials said.

A police spokesman told Reuters there had been an explosion in the restaurant on Nevsky Prospect, the city's main thoroughfare, and that five people had been wounded.

But emergency services put the number at six, spokesman Viktor Beltsov said.

''There has been an explosion, it was caused by a device that we have not yet been able to identify,'' a police spokesman said.

A Reuters reporter at the scene said the windows of the restaurant had been blown out and there were shards of broken glass scattered over the pavement.

He said there was no other evidence of damage.

Anti-Moscow rebels linked to Russia's Chechnya region have mounted a spate of bomb attacks on civilians in Russia but there have been no major attack outside the turbulent North Caucasus region for more than two years.

Reuters