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Eyewitness of the two explosions on the...

time, and this was nothing. I’m fine. It was just a ‘pop’ like the kind if fire crackers we might let off at New Year.”

He added that the reaction to the explosion was very calm

“There were some women crying and screaming and there were some people bleeding and wounded, but they were walking. I was two or three carriages away, so I didn’t see any bodies or anything.”

After the explosions there was a rush of people trying to leave the subway stations. The Moscow metro is one of the busiest in the world, carrying around 5,5 million passengers a day. Rush hour, when the attacks took place, is one of the busiest times.

One witness said that some of the wounded were pushed along in the crowd of around 1,000 people trying to leave the station via one escalator.

“At the exit near the escalator two wounded women, who had been carried along in the crowd, overtook me. They had cuts on their faces and

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