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| At least 37 people have been killed by two explosions which hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, Russian officials have said. | |
| The first blast went off in the central Lubyanka station at 0756 (0356 GMT). Police said the dead included 14 people inside a train and 11 on the platform. | |
| The second explosion occurred about 40 minutes later at the Park Kultury station, where 12 people were killed. | |
| Authorities in the capital have declared it a "terrorist" incident. | |
| The BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Moscow says no-one has yet claimed responsibility, but the explosions do appear to have been co-ordinated. | |
| Moscow's metro is one of the most-used underground railways in the world, carrying some 5.5m passengers a day, our correspondent says. | |
| Suspicion is likely to fall on groups in the troubled North Caucasus region, where the authorities are fighting Islamist militants, he adds. | |
| 'Suicide bombings' | |
| Emergency services ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said the first explosion tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at the Lubyanka station, close to the headquarters of Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). | |
| She said people both inside the carriage and on the platform had been killed. | |
| "There was no fire. Rescuers of the Moscow emergencies department and firefighters are now working at the site," she added. | "There was no fire. Rescuers of the Moscow emergencies department and firefighters are now working at the site," she added. |
| The second blast, at Park Kultury, came at 0838 (0438 GMT). | |
| Prosecutors in the capital told the Russian Interfax news agency that initial reports indicated both of the explosions were suicide bombings. | |
| Russian forces have scored a series of successes against militants in recent weeks. In February, at least 20 insurgents were reportedly killed in an operation by Russian security forces in Ingushetia. | |
| There was a major attack on the Moscow Metro in February 2004, when at least 39 people were killed by a bomb on a packed train as it approached the Paveletskaya Metro station. | |
| Six months later, a suicide bomber blew herself up outside a station, killing 10 people. Both attacks were blamed on Chechen rebels, who had targeted the capital in the past. | |
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