Mar 29, 2010
MOSCOW SUBWAY BLASTS
Suicide bombers kill 37
MOSCOW - TWO female suicide bombers blew themselves up on packed metro trains in central Moscow's morning rush hour on Monday, killing at least 37 people in the deadlist attacks in the Russian capital for over a decade, authorities said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts but suspicion was likely to fall on groups from Russia's North Caucasus, where the Kremlin is fighting a growing Islamist insurgency.
Moscow authorities said the attacks were caused by female suicide bombers wearing belts packed with explosives.
The first blast just before 8am (0400 GMT, 12pm Singapore time) tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at the Lubyanka metro station, close to the headquarters of Russia's main domestic security service FSB. 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 Yuri Luzhkov told reporters at Park Kultury metro station.