Terrorism in Moscow,
3/29/2010
Moscow Attack a Test for Putin
and His Record Against Terror
• The brazen suicide bombings in the center
of Moscow confronted Prime Minister
Vladimir V. Putin with a grave challenge to
his record of curbing terrorism, and raised
the possibility that he would respond as he
had in the past, by significantly tightening
control over the government.
• The explosions Monday, set off by female
suicide bombers in two landmark subway
stations, killed at least 38 people and
wounded scores of others, touching off
fears that the Muslim insurgency in
southern Russia, including Chechnya, was
once again being brought to the country’s
heart.
• A commuter wounded in the
bombing at the Park Kultury
subway station in Moscow,
shortly after the blast on
Monday
The two stations involved
• Emergency workers and
commuters near the Park
Kultury metro station in
Moscow, after the rush hour
bombing, the first on the
Moscow metro in six years.
• Commuters on a subway
train injured by the blast at
the Park Kultury subway
station waited for medical
care just outside the station.
• A woman cried as Interior
Ministry officers block her
way in front of the exit of the
Lubyanka metro station.
• In this image from a television
broadcast, victims of the blast
at the Park Kultury station lie
on the platform alongside a
subway train that was hit by
one of the blasts.
• Outside the entrance to
Lubyanka metro station,
police sealed off the zone
around the station after the
attack.
• Emergency workers carried
the body of a victim of a bomb
explosion at Park Kultury
metro station in Moscow.
• Moscow police and emergency
officials coordinated their
response to the bombing outside
the entrance to Lubyanka metro
station, where 23 people were
killed.
• Hundreds of commuters were
forced to leave the subway
system after bombing at the
Park Kultury metro station.
• Flowers were left in memory
of victims of the bomb
explosion at the Park Kultury
station.
• Russia's president, Dmitry
Medvedev, placed flowers in
memory of the victims of the
blast at the Lubyanka station.