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The boy, photographed on CCTV, was later named Mikhail Zhlobitsky
A 17-year-old man died of his injuries after detonating explosives at an office of the Russian Federal Security Service FSB in Arkhangelsk city, in the north-west of the country,
Three FSB employees were injured when leaving the explosives extinguished just inside the building around 09:00 (06:00 GMT).
The explosion caused serious damage.
An image of the video surveillance suspect appeared shortly afterwards, with a message that he allegedly posted on social media before the blast.
Although the authenticity of the message posted on an anarchist discussion group has not been confirmed, the user identifies as an anarcho-communist and claims that the FSB "manufactures" cases and tortures the people ".
A terrorist committee said that, according to its initial findings, the suspect was a 17-year-old man who had entered the building and removed from his bag an "unidentified object that had exploded in his hands".
He was later named Mikhail Zhlobitsky, a student at a local technical college. Her grandmother told BBC Russian that she did not understand why he blew himself up.
"He does not drink or smoke, and he does not swear, he does not play truant – he still goes to college, I do not know what happened" she said.
The explosion was described as a terrorist attack. Governor Igor Orlov said local authorities in Arkhangelsk, about 1,200 km north of Moscow, had taken measures to increase security in all public buildings.
Attacks against security services are unusual in Russia, although police have been targeted in some areas. Chechnya and Dagestan
The FSB has been behind two controversial cases this year, against groups accused of planning violent uprisings, reported Sarah Rainsford of the BBC , in Moscow.
the statements were false, even though they claimed that statements in a case had been extracted under torture.
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