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| Situation Update No. 3 Ref.no.: VW-20100329-25500-RUS
Situation Update No. 3
On 2010-03-29 at 06:30:23 [UTC]
Event: Terror Attack
Location: Russia Capital City Lubyanka and Park Kultury METRO Stations Moscow
Number of Deads: 41 person(s)
Number of Injured: 11 person(s)
Situation: Two deadly explosions have hit the metro system in Russia's capital Moscow, killing at least 41 people, emergency officials say. According to Irina Andrianova a spokeswoman for Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations, the first blast shook Moscow's central Lubyanka metro station during rush hour early on Monday. At least 26 people were killed and 10 wounded in the attack, both on the platform and in the train. The headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the Soviet-era KGB, is reportedly located just above the station. Only 30 minutes after the first explosion, another central Moscow station was rattled by yet another blast. "This blast rocked Park Kultury at 04:38 GMT," Interfax quoted a security source as saying. Immediate reports put the death toll for the second blast at up to 15. Both stations have been closed while train services have been halted. So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks; however the Interfax news agency quoted a Russian security source as saying that they could have been caused by bombers. Over the last decade, the Russian capital has been hit by a string of deadly explosions claimed by militants from the turbulent southern region of Chechnya. |  | | | |
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