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A railway bridge over the Volga river has been damaged by a bomb that exploded in the Russian region of Samara according to initial official reports. “There are no deaths or injuries,” the FSB intelligence service in the Samara region told the state news agency Tass on Monday. The area around the bridge was cordoned off by security forces. Rail traffic on the line between the city of Chapayevsk and the suburb of Svyazda was temporarily suspended. Both the fencing and the supporting structure of the bridge on one bank of the Chapayevka river were said to have been damaged. Chapayevsk is an indu…