Russia Mourns Metro Bombs Victims
Russia
is holding an official day of mourning after thirty-nine people
were killed and more than seventy injured in twin suicide
bombings on the Moscow Metro.
The day of mourning was declared by the Moscow city government,
which also urged that no funerals should take place.
The ceremony was observed with lighting of candles and laying
flowers in memory of the victims of the blast inside the
Lubyanka metro station, where at least twenty-three people died,
and the Park Kultury station, where the second explosion killed
at least twelve people.
As security was stepped up amid fear of fresh attack, Russian
President, Dmitry Medvedev vowed to destroy the perpetrators.
No group claimed to have carried out the bombings but officials
blamed Muslim militants from the North Caucasus.
Suspects
Police said they are looking for two women who accompanied the
bombers as well as a possible male accomplice, after identifying
them and the bombers through surveillance footage.
Police are said to be seeking three people sighted along with
the bombers.
Two suspected female suicide bombers detonated bombs packed with
pieces of metal at two separate stations on the same line during
rush hour on Monday morning.
AP/Williams
