MINSK, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Forty-three people were wounded, three of them seriously, in an explosion in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk, northeast of the capital Minsk, the country's Security Council said Friday.
The explosive device, a beer can stuffed with metal fragments, was planted in the center of a dance floor and went off late on Thursday night.
The Security Council said it was not a terrorist attack. It was considering other versions of the accident, including a row between criminal gangs and hooliganism.
It was the second such explosion in Vitebsk in nine days. The previous explosion wounded two people September 14.
