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Shaun Walker in Warsaw and Jakub Krupa

Poland closes last Russian consulate after ‘act of state terrorism’ on railway

A police officer  stands near a halted train, which has green, white and yellow livery and looks like a small regional service running from overhead power cables. It is stopped on an embankment with trees in the background, and the officer stands on a walkway with white railings
The blast damaged track on the Warsaw-Lublin line near Mika, in east-central Poland. Photograph: Dariusz Borowicz/Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Reuters

Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, has described last weekend’s sabotage attack on Poland’s rail system as “an act of state terrorism” ordered by Russia, as he announced that Poland was closing the last remaining Russian consulate in the country.

“The clear intention was to cause human casualties,” he said of the weekend bomb attack.

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