White House Says US Prepared to Assist Russia

White House Says US Prepared to Assist Russia
People carry a subway blast victim into an ambulance after explosion at Tekhnologichesky Institut subway station in St.Petersburg, Russia on April 3, 2017. The subway in the Russian city of St. Petersburg is reporting that there are fatalities and several people have been injured in an explosion on a subway train. Alexander Tarasenkov/Interpress via AP
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says the U.S. is condemning the “reprehensible” attack on the St. Petersburg subway that killed 10 people and injured about 40.

Spicer said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and with the Russian people,” after a bomb blast tore through a subway train in Russia’s second-largest city Monday.

Spicer says the U.S. is prepared to offer assistance to Russia.

He said, “Attacks like these on ordinary citizens just going about their lives remind us that the world must work as one to prevent violence in all forms.”

Trump earlier denounced the attack as “absolutely a terrible thing.”

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

Blast victims lie near a subway train hit by a explosion at the Tekhnologichesky Institut subway station in St.Petersburg, Russia April 3, 2017. The subway in the Russian city of St. Petersburg is reporting that several people have been injured in an explosion on a subway train. (AP Photo/DTP&ChP St. Peterburg via AP)
Blast victims lie near a subway train hit by a explosion at the Tekhnologichesky Institut subway station in St.Petersburg, Russia April 3, 2017. The subway in the Russian city of St. Petersburg is reporting that several people have been injured in an explosion on a subway train. AP Photo/DTP&ChP St. Peterburg via AP