At least one of the two bombs which killed...
tightened at Moscow"s overland train terminals and airports.With central Moscow at a standstill, the injured are being ferried to hospitals across the capital by helicopter. Police have appealed for calm.
Emergencies ministry chief Sergei Shoigu has reported to President Dmitry Medvedev on the ongoing operation.
If terrorism is confirmed as the cause of the blasts, this will be the first major terrorist incident in the Russian capital since the autumn of 2004, when 10 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside a north Moscow metro station.
The explosion was part of a series of terrorist attacks that also saw 90 people die in two plane bombings and the deaths of over 300 people, many of them children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in Beslan.
The Moscow metro was last targeted by terrorists in February 2004, when a blast killed some 40 people.
A bomb also hit a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train last November,
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