Dozens killed in Moscow Metro suicide bombings

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BBC News - Moscow Metro hit by deadly suicide bombings

At least 37 people have been killed after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow Metro trains in the morning rush hour, officials say.

The first blast occurred in the central Lubyanka station at 0756 (0356 GMT). Police said the dead included 14 people inside a train and 11 on the platform.

The second explosion came about 40 minutes later at the Park Kultury station, where 12 people were killed.

No-one has yet said they carried out the worst attack in Moscow since 2004.

But the BBC's Richard Galpin in the Russian capital says past suicide bombings there have been blamed on Islamist rebels fighting for independence in the troubled North Caucasus region of Chechnya.

Moscow's metro is one of the busiest subways in the world, carrying some 5.5m passengers a day.

Emergency services ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said the first explosion tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at Lubyanka.

The second blast at Park Kultury, which is also on the Sokolnicheskaya line, came at 0838 (0438 GMT). It struck at the back of the train as people were getting on board.

CNN bottom line says Chechen rebels claim responsibility.

 

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Suicide bomber kills 31 at Russia's biggest airport - Reuters

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and injured more than 130 on Monday at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Russia's biggest.

President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to track down and punish those behind the attack, which analysts said appeared to fit a pattern of bombings by Islamist militants fighting to create an independent "emirate" in Russia's north Caucasus region.

"The explosion was right near me, I was not hit but I felt the shock wave -- people were falling," said Yekaterina Alexandrova, a translator who was waiting in the crowded arrivals area to meet a client flying in from abroad.

"Smoke started to gather -- there was a lot of smoke," she said by telephone. "Many of the injured went outside on their own in a state of shock. Then they began to announce information about where to exit."

The Kremlin said Medvedev, who has called the insurgency in the north Caucasus the biggest threat to Russia's security, was delaying a trip to the Davos international business forum in Switzerland.

The rebels have vowed to take the bombing campaign to the Russian heartland, hitting transport and economic targets.

"Security will be strengthened at large transport hubs," Medvedev wrote on Twitter. "We mourn the victims of the terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport. The organizers will be tracked down and punished."

Russia's rouble-dominated stock market MICEX fell by nearly two percent following the blast, which ripped through the arrivals hall.