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Tue, 03/30/2010 - 14:51
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NO INDONESIAN AMONG MOSCOW BLASTS` VICTIMS
Jakarta, March 30 (ANTARA) - No Indonesian was among the victims of the two deadly suicide bombings that happened on the Moscow subway and a station blow the secret police's headquarters during rush hours on Monday.
Tengku Faizasyah, a spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry when contacted by phone here on Tuesday, said luckily no Indonesian had fallen victims in the two bomb blasts which had killed around 38 people.
Therefore, Indonesian people should not worry about the safety of their relatives in Moscow as the casualty reports so far did not include any Indonesian national killed or wounded, he said.
Over 60 people were wounded in Monday morning's blasts, the first such attacks in Moscow in six years.
Russian police have killed several Islamic militant leaders in the North Caucasus recently, including one last week in the Kabardino-Balkariya region, which raised fears of retaliatory strikes and escalating bloodshed by the militants.
As smoke billowed through the subway tunnels not far from the Kremlin and dazed survivors streamed out of the vast transportation system, al-Qaida-affiliated Web sites were abuzz with celebration of the attacks by the two female suicide bombers.
The bombings showed that the beleaguered rebels are still strong enough to inflict harm on an increasingly assertive Russia, and they followed a warning last month from Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov that "the war is coming to their cities."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who built much of his political capital by directing a fierce war against Chechen separatists a decade ago, promised to track down and kill the organizers of what he called a "disgusting" crime.
"The terrorists will be destroyed," he said.
In the wake of the explosions, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced a "heightened security presence," NBC News reported.
The first blast just before 8 a.m. (12.00 a.m. ET) tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at the Lubyanka metro station. The explosion killed at least 23 people.
The headquarters of the FSB, Russia's main domestic security service and the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, is located in a building above the station.
Another blast about 40 minutes later wrecked the second carriage of a train waiting at the Park Kultury metro station, killing at least 14 more people.
Surveillance camera footage posted on the Internet showed motionless bodies lying in the Lubyanka station lobby and emergency workers treating victims.
Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu initially said the toll was 38 killed and 102 injured, according to Russian news agencies.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said both explosions were believed to have been set off on the trains.
"The first information that the FSB has given us is that there were two female suicide bombers," he said.
Tengku Faizasyah, a spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Ministry when contacted by phone here on Tuesday, said luckily no Indonesian had fallen victims in the two bomb blasts which had killed around 38 people.
Therefore, Indonesian people should not worry about the safety of their relatives in Moscow as the casualty reports so far did not include any Indonesian national killed or wounded, he said.
Over 60 people were wounded in Monday morning's blasts, the first such attacks in Moscow in six years.
Russian police have killed several Islamic militant leaders in the North Caucasus recently, including one last week in the Kabardino-Balkariya region, which raised fears of retaliatory strikes and escalating bloodshed by the militants.
As smoke billowed through the subway tunnels not far from the Kremlin and dazed survivors streamed out of the vast transportation system, al-Qaida-affiliated Web sites were abuzz with celebration of the attacks by the two female suicide bombers.
The bombings showed that the beleaguered rebels are still strong enough to inflict harm on an increasingly assertive Russia, and they followed a warning last month from Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov that "the war is coming to their cities."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who built much of his political capital by directing a fierce war against Chechen separatists a decade ago, promised to track down and kill the organizers of what he called a "disgusting" crime.
"The terrorists will be destroyed," he said.
In the wake of the explosions, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced a "heightened security presence," NBC News reported.
The first blast just before 8 a.m. (12.00 a.m. ET) tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at the Lubyanka metro station. The explosion killed at least 23 people.
The headquarters of the FSB, Russia's main domestic security service and the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, is located in a building above the station.
Another blast about 40 minutes later wrecked the second carriage of a train waiting at the Park Kultury metro station, killing at least 14 more people.
Surveillance camera footage posted on the Internet showed motionless bodies lying in the Lubyanka station lobby and emergency workers treating victims.
Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu initially said the toll was 38 killed and 102 injured, according to Russian news agencies.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said both explosions were believed to have been set off on the trains.
"The first information that the FSB has given us is that there were two female suicide bombers," he said.
