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Car blast kills Russian serviceman near St. Petersburg as murder probe opens
- Newsrooms
- 2
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 2 newsrooms by 8:04am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowPart of a bigger story
Car: 2 developments since Thu 12 Nov.
1File photo: Saint Petersburg
A car bomb exploded in Shushary, near St. Petersburg, killing a Russian serviceman whom media reports identified as a colonel; investigators opened a murder case. Reports differed on whether a passenger was in the car and injured, while authorities had not publicly confirmed the officer’s rank or th
In Independent Journal Review’s words.2
Background: Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and then Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. Situated on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, its area of 1,439 square kilometers (556 sq mi) makes it the smallest administrative division of Russia by area. 4 million people living in the metropolitan area.3
The bigger story: Car
2 developments since Thu 12 Nov. 1 more since this one.
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The story so far
2 newsrooms- Reports
- 2
- Newsrooms and sources
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- Last 3 hours
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First with it: Independent Journal Review, 4 hr 30 min before anyone else.
Reported by 2 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 2 newsrooms by 8:04am AEDT (2 most likely), and 2 to 3 by Sat, 14 Nov, 2:04am AEDT. 2 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 2 | 2 |
| In 1 hours (3:04am AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 3 hours (5:04am AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 6 hours (8:04am AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 12 hours (2:04pm AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
| In 24 hours (2:04am AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
Based on how similar stories played out last week. Right 93% of the time. How this works
Every report, in order
2 reports from 2 newsrooms, first to latest. Each links to the original.
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