St Petersburg explosion: Russian media wrongly names man as attacker

Ilyas Nikitin goes to police station to clear name after his photograph appears on TV and online hours after metro attackIn the hours after Monday’s bomb attack on the St Petersburg metro, Russian media ran photographs of the man believed to be responsible. Captured on closed circuit television, the man wore all black, what looked like an Islamic prayer cap and had a long dark beard. The photographs were circulated widely, both on social media and by television and online media. But the ma