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At least 37 were killed and 62 injured during the attacks, law enforcement agencies announced.

This was the first terrorist attack on the Russian capital over the last six years. Here is a factbox over the main terrorist attacks in Moscow"s subway stations.

A blast rocked the area between Rizhskaya metro station and a shopping center on August 31, 2004, at 8:15 p.m., killing 10 people and wounding more than 40.

A female suicide bomber was blamed for the blast. She failed to approach a group of police near the entrance of the subway station and instead detonated the bomb nearby.

The responsibility for the terrorist act near Rizhkaya station was assumed by the Islambuli brigades, an Islamist movement, considered to be part of an international terrorist organization. A message saying the attack was an act of support to Chechen Muslims, appeared on an Islamist site later.

Militant Nikolai Kipkeyev, an accomplice to the suicide bomber, was killed during

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