Powerful explosions at intervals of half an hour

Homemade bombs at an interval of half an hour worked at stations "Lubyanka" and "Park Kultury" in Moscow metro. The explosions were powerful, killed more than three dozen people. In the first version of the investigation, the bombs are powered by either suicide bombers or by a signal from a mobile phone.




The explosion occurred in the Moscow metro on Monday to 7.56, in the early hours of the peak. The explosion at the station "Lubyanka" (part directed towards the "Komsomolskaya") thundered at the moment when the landing over and landing on the train, who came from the "South-West».



The explosion was so powerful that the car is partially deformed and some of the passengers got caught between his designs.



The stations "Lubyanka" emergency workers had to use hydraulic scissors for cutting metal to rescue some of the victims. Survivors of the townspeople were taken out of the train path.



Fire after the explosion was not. Provisional power of the explosion was 3 kg of TNT.



According to UPC at 10.20, in the explosion at the station "Lubyanka" killed 23 people, another 18 were injured. In 70% of affected very badly injured.





Almost all subway stations on speakerphone reported that the train of the Sokolniki Line followed with extended intervals and do not go to the station "Park Kultury" to "Komsomolskaya».



Around 8.40 in the same metro line - at the station "Park Kultury" (radial) - second explosion thundered.



The device exploded as the second car of the train, follow the same direction - toward the station "Street Podbelskogo." According to preliminary data, there are 12 people were killed, 15 wounded.



Driving undermining was probably similar to that used on the "Lubyanka».



According to the press service of the Health Ministry, as of 10.00 from the station "Lubyanka" evacuated 17 injured.



With the metro station "Park Kultury" 9 evacuated victims.



Told reporters, Deputy Mayor Pyotr Biryukov, who arrived at the operational headquarters in the "Lubyanka" in serious condition are now 30 people.



Total medical attention turned 61 people. Destruction, the official said, the stations do not. Currently trains run from the "Southwest" to "Sport" and by "Streets Podbelskogo" to "Komsomolskaya».



According to preliminary reports, the explosions in the Moscow metro stations "Lubyanka" and "Park Kultury" terroristki- committed suicide bombers.



Both bombs were bezobolochnoe. According to some reports, found the remains of the bodies of suicide bombers.



Sources of "Interfax" do not exclude that the explosion took place in the team with a mobile phone. In this context, they suggest that mobile telephony in Moscow can be blocked in some places.



At 10:45 MSK was paralyzed traffic for most of the Third Ring Road - on the inside of the movement stood on Andropov avenue to Rusakovskaya street. On the outer side of the highway traffic jams were observed Bakuninskaya street to the Warsaw highway.



By 10.30 it was opened, traffic on the Garden Ring.



General view of the metro station "Park Kultury", where in the morning there was an explosion. (Denis Sinyakov / Reuters)



The corpses of the victims of the terrorist attack, reflecting on the door of the car, lying on the ground near the metro station "Park Kultury". (Tatyana Makeyeva / Reuters)



A woman cries near the Emergency Situations Ministry worker at the metro station "Park Kultury". At least 37 people were killed and 33 injured in a double bombing in crowded during the morning rush hour station "Lubyanka" and "Park Kultury". (Sergei Fadeichev / Reuters)



The helicopter lands on Zubovsky Boulevard, to evacuate casualties from the metro station "Park Kultury" after the attack. Many attribute the attack a suicide bomber, mstivshego for Russia's military actions in the North Caucasus. (Vladimir Fedorenko / AFP - Getty Images)



Policemen guarding the entrance to the station "Park Kultury". (Oxana Onipko-AFP / Getty Images)



In this photo taken with a transmission on one of the channels, a wounded woman in the car at the station "Park Kultury". (AP)



People are trying to get on the escalator at a subway station "Oktyabrskaya". "We have seen this problem on a national scale," - said President Dmitry Medvedev. (Denis Sinyakov-Reuters)



Emergency Ministry workers carry the body of the victim in the ambulance in downtown Moscow. "I am confident that our services will do everything to find and punish the criminals - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. - The terrorists will be destroyed. " (AP)



In the picture, taken from surveillance cameras, visible body of people lying in the transition to the metro station "Lubyanka". (AP)



Another picture from the surveillance cameras at the metro station "Lubyanka" after the explosion. (Reuters)



Emergency Ministry workers carry the body of a victim of the explosion at the metro station "Park Kultury". (Tatyana Makeyeva-Reuters)