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The first terrorist attack on the Russian...
dogs are carrying out inspections of other stations as the capital remains on high alert. Security has been tightened at the capital"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 autumn 2004, when 90 people died in two plane bombings and 10 people were killed in bomb attack outside a north Moscow metro station. The same series of attacks culminated in the deaths of over 300 people, many of then children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in Beslan.
A terrorist blast in the Moscow metro in February 2004 killed some 40 people.