Two Blasts Kill At Least 37 on Moscow's Subway System During Rush Hour …Update: Female Suicide Bombers Suspected
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, March 28, 2010, 11:36 PM
Russia Today has video.
The woman reporter at the news organization actually was riding the subway during the explosions.
She was an eye witness:
Two blasts in the Moscow Subway during rush hour killed at least 37 people today.
Terrorism is expected.
The AP reported:
Two explosions blasted Moscow’s subway system Monday morning as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 37 people, emergency officials and news agencies said.
Russia’s top investigative body said terrorism is suspected in the blasts, although there was no immediate confirmation of how the explosions happened.
Moscow Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said the dead in the first blast on included 14 people inside the train and another 11 people on the platform at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow. The station is underneath the building that houses the main offices of the Federal Security Service, the KGB’s main successor agency.
A second explosion hit the Park Kultury station about 45 minutes later. City police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said at least 12 people were killed in that blast.
The last time Moscow was hit by a confirmed terrorist attack was in August 2004, when a suicide bomber blew herself up outside a city subway station, killing 10 people.
The headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the Soviet-era KGB, is located just above Lubyanka station.
RIA Novosti photo
UPDATE: CNN is reporting that female suicide bombers are suspected to be behind the blasts.
Female suicide bombers detonated explosions that rocked two subway stations in central Moscow during rush hour on Monday morning, killing at least 35 people, officials said.
“It was a terrorist act carried out by the female suicide bombers,” said Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, citing Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service. “They were specifically timed – for … the train was nearing the station – to make the most damage.
“The blast was caused by 300 to 400 grams of explosives,” he said.
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jainphx commented:
There is no place in the world that is safe from terrorist. I pray that we can avoid the worst of it, but who knows with the communist we have in charge now.
Opus #6 commented:
I pray for them and their families.
indigo commented:
Something tells me that this was not done by Christians.
vanzorge commented:
my heart goes out to the people who were injured, and to the families of those who were killed
Betsy Ross commented:
…Why?…
wanumba commented:
Terrible!
indigo commented:
Chechnya !
Marsh commented:
Let’s play Guess The Religion Of The Bombers.
kay commented:
I’m not advertising for catholicism here.
I would just like to point out the strange confluence of events since the 3 secrets of Fatima were NOT followed. The first one was. The second one was for all the bishops during a mass at the vatican to pray for Russia and the 3rd was to be opened only in 1961 and read. Well, Russia was never prayed for (so you’ve got atheism as their central non-religion) and then you’ve got the changes in Vatican 2 – which have led to what Fatima predicted – the falling apart of the Church from the inside (see Pope Benedict urged to “resign”). Now I just read on drudge a few days ago about the exorcist who said the church was filled with “problems” and coming from the exorcist that can only mean 1 thing.
Combine the above with the icky guy sheik who said they would take over Rome and western europe for their religion and voila – you’ve got the perfect storm for a planet that is Jesus free.
Happy Easter!
It may be our last we can celebrate out in the open.
Winston commented:
Jihad knows no borders
Joe C. commented:
Damn Amish terrorists, again!
Andreas K. commented:
Christians? Nope.
Buddhists! Hmmm… no.
Hindus, of course Hindus did it! Nope, not really.
Taoists maybe? Can’t really imagine it.
Jews! It’s always the Jews! Wait… no, they don’t do things like that.
Hmmm… that doesn’t really leave many options. Let’s see. It’s Russia, they don’t have an ETA or IRA. Hmmm… now who, who could be the murderers… Hmmm…
Well, it seems there is only one group left. The so called “religion of peace.”
No, they don’t do things like that, do they? I mean, those people are absolutely and 100% peaceful, right? I mean, the WTC, London, Madrid, Mumbai, Bali… all of that proves that they’re 100% peaceful, right?
More seriously now… can we finally bomb them back into stoneage? Please? I mean, how many innocent people have to die in the name of this bloodthirsty idol created by a pedophile barbarian from the desert before our so called “leaders” realize where the threat comes from?
Bill Mitchell commented:
Am still shocked every day that this sort of thing hasn’t happened even once on US soil since 9/11.
Veryconcerned commented:
The religion of “Peace and Love” is at it again and spreading more of it’s compassion. I pray for the souls of the people who were attacked and I pray for the lives of their family and friends. The Jihadis can go to hell and be in a lot of company with their ilk.
The non-extremist are as much to blame as the extremist. The rank and file in this “Peace and Love” religion do nothing and say nothing which means they either support what is being done or they are cowards but either way they are as much to blame.
JPL17 commented:
Waiting for Alan Grayson to blame “teabaggers”…
kate commented:
These were separatists.
When the Georgians were trying to kick the Russians out, they weren’t called separatists.
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