This morning, two subway stations were rocked with bomb blasts in the Moscow subway explosion. Just before 8 a.m., a female suicide bomber set off her explosive belt in the Lubyanka subway station. At the Park Kultry station, on the exact same line, a second bomber set off her explosive belt forty minutes later. A militant separatist group from Chechnya is suspected. Moscow police are using military payday loans to investigate the dual explosions.
Moscow subway explosion injures dozens
The casualty reports for the Moscow subway explosion are nevertheless coming in. The general reports state that about 38 individuals are dead, with another 65 injured. The first Moscow metro explosion took place just before 8 a.m. local time, at the Lubyanka subway station that is directly below the Moscow intelligence headquarters. Several miles away and forty minutes later, the second Moscow subway explosion shook the station.
Moscow subway explosion blamed on Chechen “black widows”
Most reports from the FSB (the Russian security agency) are laying blame for the Moscow subway explosion at the feet of North Caucasus rebel groups. The Chechen North Caucasus region was an independent nation at one point. The North Caucasus region is now considered a “Russian federal subject”. While he has not taken responsibility, Doku Umarov, the leader of the biggest Chechen rebel group, stated on February 15 that there would be a “fresh campaign of terror on Russian soil”. It is suspected the suicide bombers were all female, and members of the “black widow” group of extreme Chechnya separatists.
Moscow subway bombings spur heightened security around the world
High-alert security was on hand at nearly every metro station around the world. In Tokyo, the only subway system with higher ridership than Moscow, additional security patrols were on-hand. The London metro has started using bomb-sniffing dogs to do sweeps. New York City is also using bomb-sniffing dogs and extra police patrols. There was a mass-transit disaster drill planned in Washington DC today, the extra police patrols can be kept in place. A New York City investigator will be sent to Moscow with an expense credit card to investigate the disaster.
