Owner of the truck that exploded on bridge to Crimea says he has no connection to the incident

Russian news outlet Baza has shared a video from a man who says he is the owner of the truck which was blown up on the bridge between Crimea and Russia early this morning. 

The man introduces himself as Samir Yusubov, born in 1996. According to Yusubov the truck is registered to him but operated by his father’s cousin. Samir Yusubov himself is currently abroad, according to Baza. 

“I, Samir Yusubov, have no connection to events on the Crimean bridge,” he says in the beginning of the clip.

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Around 6:00am on October 8, a truck exploded on the bridge between Crimea and Russia. Three sections of one of the bridge’s two passenger car lanes collapsed. Because of the explosion, a train carrying oil tanks caught fire as it passed on the railway part of the bridge, located above the part for cars. At 3:00pm Moscow time, Russia’s Investigative Committee reported three deaths – car passengers who were near the truck at the time of the explosion. The committee did not clarify the fate of the truck driver (judging by footage of the incident, he was killed).