Tag: Moscow Metro Bombings
By Jeralyn, Section Foreign Affairs
Posted on Mon Mar 29, 2010 at 02:43:22 AM EST
Tags: Moscow Metro Bombings (all tags)
Posted on Mon Mar 29, 2010 at 02:43:22 AM EST
Tags: Moscow Metro Bombings (all tags)
Women suicide bombers attacked two Metro subway stations in Moscow at rush hour this morning, killing at least 34 people and injuring many more.d
No group immediately took responsibility for the blasts, but suspicion is likely to fall on Chechen militants and other groups from Russia's North Caucasus, where Russia is fighting a growing Islamist insurgency.
In 2004, an attack on the Moscow Metro killed 39. President Vladmir Putin blamed Aslan Maskhadov, the fugitive Chechen rebel leader. In 2003, women suicide bombers July 5, 2003 - Two women suicide bombers killed 15 people at an open-air rock festival at Moscow's Tushino airfield.
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