Friday, February 06, 2004

Monsters hit Russia, again.

Chechen suicide bombers strike the Russian subway.

Emerging from the depths
Lawmaker Valery Draganov, who represents the Avtozavodskaya district, told Echo of Moscow radio that body parts were scattered along the tracks. Inside the badly damaged train, bodies covered in soot sat side-by-side still in their seats.

The line where the explosion occurred is one of Moscow’s deepest, and the injured were brought up on stretchers on the long escalators to ambulances crowded outside the Avtozavodskaya station, southeast of downtown Moscow.

Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Chekalin said at least 39 people were killed, and 122 were hospitalized including one child.

More than 700 people were evacuated from the two metro stations closest to the blast, ITAR-Tass reported.

Most Muscovites are dependent on mass transit, and trains are usually packed during rush hour. The subway is the world’s busiest in terms of passenger traffic, carrying as many as 8.5 million people a day.

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