Kazan and Kursk Stations in Moscow were evacuated due to messages about mining

Police officers examined the Kazan and Kursk stations in the center of Moscow after anonymous messages about mining, no explosive devices were found. In total, according to preliminary data, more than two thousand people were taken to the streets.

"At 20.28 Moscow time, the Kursk station was completed, at 20.51 - Kazan. Expert devices were not found," a source in emergency services told RIA Novosti .

AsRIAMO was told in the Directorate of the Railway Stations of the capital, the evacuation did not affect the train schedule: "We have worked out the train scheme, so the evacuation of the stations will not affect the movement of trains in any way."

More than 600 people were evacuated from the Kazan station, and about 1.3 thousand from Kursk, the source of RIA Novosti previously claimed.

For a knowingly false message about the act of terrorism, criminal liability is provided under Article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to the press service of the Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District, the suspect has already been detained, TASS reports.