The Hindu : `3 involved in Moscow attack'

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Sunday, Feb 08, 2004

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`3 involved in Moscow attack'

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW, FEB. 7. Moscow will observe a day of mourning on Monday for the victims of Friday's bomb attack in the city metro which killed 39 and wounded 134 people. The Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, said the victims would also be buried on Monday.

The bomb, which experts said contained the equivalent of 3 to 5 kg of TNT, went off in a metro train in the morning peak hours, ripping apart one carriage and damaging two more.

Mr. Luzhkov told reporters today that investigators believe there were three terrorists involved in the attack, including a woman who blew herself up, and a man and another woman who accompanied the suicide bomber to the train.

Police have released a composite sketch of a man suspected of involvement in the bombing, and two men travelling in a car were detained today because they resembled the portrait, but were later released. The number of casualties remained unchanged on Saturday, but experts said the figure may go up as 21 of the 105 injured people who remain in hospital are reported to be in "extremely grave condition." Also, some bodies were torn to shreds, and it will take time to count the number of people killed.

The Moscow Government will tighten control over illegal immigrants in the capital, Mr. Luzhkov said, as security measures were intensified at railway stations and the city airports. Hundreds of people responded to doctors' appeal to donate blood for the injured recovering in hospitals. Friday's bombing was the fourth terror attack in Moscow in the past six months.

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