Moscow Mourns Metro Explosions Victims

Moscow is holding a day of mourning today for the 38 people killed in Monday's twin suicide bombings on the city's Metro, reports BBC News.

Russians have been lighting candles and laying flowers in memory of the victims of a blast inside the Lubyanka metro station, where 23 people died, and the Park Kultury station, where a second explosion left 12 people dead. Another three people died in hospital, and officials have warned that the death toll could rise.

Two suspected female suicide bombers detonated bombs packed with pieces of metal at two separate stations during rush hour in the morning on March 29. No group has claimed responsibility for the blasts.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to "destroy" the perpetrators. Officials blamed the attacks on Muslim groups from the northern Caucasus. Medvedev also laid a wreath at the scene of one of the attacks. He called the plotters "beasts," adding: "We will find and destroy them all."

Chechnya's Kremlin-backed President Ramzan Kadyrov condemned the attacks in Moscow which he said was Chechnya's "capital" and "heart."
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the injured at a hospital in Moscow. He said law enforcement agencies would "do everything to find and punish the criminals."

US President Barack Obama pledged that Washington would "help bring to justice those who undertook this attack" while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called terrorism a "common enemy."

The co-ordinated attacks were the deadliest in Moscow since February 2004, when 40 people were killed by a bomb on a packed metro train as it approached the Paveletskaya station.

Six months later, a suicide bomber blew herself up outside another station, killing 10 people. Both attacks were blamed on rebels from Chechnya.