There is no analog to the explosive substance used by a terrorist in the explosion in the Minsk subway system, Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) chairman Vadim Zaitsev said at a briefing in Minsk.
"It was a special explosive substance, which is of enormous interest to experts," he said.
An analog of the explosive substance used by the same terrorists in the explosions in Minsk on July 3-4, 2008, and in the subway on April 11, 2011, "has not been found in the data of any other state," the KGB chief said.
The explosive used in the subway was of a mixed type, he said.
Security agencies investigating the previous explosion in 2008 presumed it was staged by professionals, Zaitsev said. "We expected super professionals, but it turned out these explosions were staged by not very professionally trained people," the KGB chief said.
When asked where the criminals got the explosives from, Zaitsev said: "On the Internet." Investigators were close to solving the July 3 crime, he said. "It would have been solved literally one of these days," he added.
Besides, the criminals "were planning other actions that would prevent the crimes from being solved," he said, without further elaborating, but ruling out new terrorist attacks or an escape from the country.
