AKIPRESS.COM - Russia's health minister has raised the death toll from Monday's blast on the St. Petersburg subway to 14, reports AP.

Veronika Skvortsova said in a televised briefing on Tuesday that 11 people died on the spot, one died in an ambulance and two at the hospital. Forty-nine people are still hospitalized, Skvortsova said.

An unidentified explosive device went off in a subway train under Russia's second-largest city while President Vladimir Putin was visiting the city. A second bomb was found and deactivated.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The attack came while President Vladimir Putin was visiting the city, his hometown.

The National Security Committee of Kyrgyzstan confirmed that the suspect Russian citizen behind the bombing was born in Kyrgyzstan.