Monday, March 29, 2010

Moscow Subway Terror

(Moscow, Russia) Two female suicide bombers detonated explosives on two packed Moscow metro trains this morning, killing and wounding scores of commuters.
At least 37 people were killed and 65 wounded on Monday when suicide bombers detonated explosives on two packed Moscow metro trains during the morning rush hour, the worst attack in the Russian capital in six years, officials said. […]

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts but suspicion was likely to fall on groups from the North Caucasus, where the Kremlin is fighting a growing Islamist insurgency.

The first blast just before 8 a.m. tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at the Lubyanka metro station, close to FSB headquarters. It killed at least 23 people.

Another blast about 40 minutes later wrecked the second carriage of a train waiting at the Park Kultury metro station, killing 14 more people.

"Two female terrorist suicide bombers carried out these bombings," Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov told reporters at Park Kultury metro station.
To the press, Moscow's Chief Prosecutor Yury Semin said, “There is no time to count the dead, only time to save the injured.”

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