Security has been tightened across Russia...
Services (FSB) said terrorists from Russia"s North Caucasus may have been involved in the attacks.Russia"s top investigator Vladimir Markin said police may be able to identify the two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks. He added that the women"s faces had not suffered in the blasts.
Markin earlier told journalists that the second attack had been carried out by a "dark-haired woman" and that "fragments of her body" found at the scene suggested she had had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to her waist.
A police source earlier told RIA Novosti that "An inspection of the scene indicates that the bomb was detonated at a height of 100-200 cm and was apparently attached to the waist of a female suicide bomber."
Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for over a decade, including two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggest Monday"s attacks are revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw
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