莫斯科地铁遭连环恐怖袭击

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A woman cries as Interior Ministry officers block her way in front of the exit of Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010

Explosions detonated by two female suicide bombers killed at least 37 people and injured 33 on two packed Moscow metro trains in the morning rush hour on Monday, officials said.

It was the worst attack in the Russian capital for six years.

A fire-fighter and Interior Ministry officers work near the entrance of the Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. An explosion ripped through Lubyanka station in central Moscow at rush hour on Monday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 11 more, the Emergencies Ministry said.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts but suspicion fell on groups from Russia"s North Caucasus, where the Kremlin is fighting a growing Islamist insurgency.

The first blast just before 8 a.m. (12 a.m. ET) tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at the Lubyanka metro station, close to the headquarters of Russia"s main domestic security service FSB. It killed at least 23 people.

Another blast about 40 minutes later wrecked the second carriage of a train waiting at the Park Kultury metro station, killing 14 more people.

"Two female terrorist suicide bombers carried out these bombings," Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov told reporters at Park Kultury metro station.

WORKERS TREAT VICTIMS

Surveillance camera footage posted on the Internet showed bodies lying in Lubyanka station lobby and emergency workers treating victims.

By 0722 GMT, the rouble was 7 kopecks down at 34.20 versus the euro-dollar basket after falling to its lowest level since March 10 of 34.43 at the market opening, according to Reuters data.更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/

The Russian stock markets were unfazed, however, edging up in early trade.

"It is a psychological moment. The sentiment is very bad, a lot of uncertainty. The market was overshort (in foreign currencies) so the reaction is explainable," said a dealer at a major Russian bank in Moscow.

Russian prosecutors said they had opened an investigation. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was being updated regularly on developments, a spokesman said.

The current death toll makes it the worst attack on Moscow since February 2004, when a suicide bombing killed at least 39 people and wounded more than 100 on a metro train.

Chechen separatists were blamed for that attack.