Moscow: Terrorist acts involve two female terrorist bombers
Two women suicide bombers were involved in the terrorist act in the Moscow subway during rush hour this morning, killing at least 35 or more people, Russian officials said.
“The terrorist acts were carried out by two female terrorist bombers,” said Moscow’s mayor, Yuri M. Luzhkov. “They occurred at a time when there would be the maximum number of victims.”
Mr. Luzhkov said 23 people were killed in the first explosion, at the Lubyanka station, and 12 people at the Park Kultury station.
Pavel Y. Novikov, 25, an electrician, said he was evacuated from the Park Kultury station about 15 minutes after the explosion. “It smelled like a burned rubber,” he said. “I saw blood, and I saw bloody clothes on the ground. It was so unpleasant.”The system had been subjected to several attacks related to the separatist war in Chechnya in the early part of the last decade.
The first explosion on Monday occurred at 7:50 a.m. in second car of a train at the Lubyanka station, killing people both on the platform and inside the train. The second explosion at the busy Park Kultyry metro station located close to Moscow’s famous Gorky Park followed about forty minutes later.
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