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Two blasts rock Moscow metro, 38 killed
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editor on 29 March, 2010 07:41:00
 
Two women suicide bombers from the volatile North Caucasus triggered deadly
explosions on the central Moscow metro system on Monday (March 29) morning
killing at least 38 people.
The first blast occurred at around 8:00 a.m. (05:00 GMT) at the Lubyanka
station; the second blast occurred some 45 minutes later at the nearby Park
Kultury station.
Lubyanka station on the busy Sokolnicheskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya
lines is underneath the building that houses the main offices of the Federal
Security Service, the KGB's main successor agency.
Moscow metro is one of the most-busy underground railways in the world; it
carries some 5.5m passengers a day.
The first major bomb attack on the Moscow metro in February 2004, targeted a
train that was approaching the Paveletskaya station. At least 39 people were
killed. A suicide bomber believed to be a Chechen rebel blew herself up six
months later outside a metro station killing 10 people.