One or several suicide bombers may be behind Domodedovo blast, police said

The explosion at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on Monday, January 24, might have been staged by one or several suicide bombers, police said.

The explosion occurred at the baggage claim area in the international arrivals section of the airport, the Russian Itar-Tass news agency reported.

"The bomb might have been in the luggage," a police officer said, adding that one of the possible leads was terrorism.
Twenty-there people were killed and 130 injured a result of the, police said.

"According to available information, an explosion occurred at Domodedovo's arrivals hall at 16:32 Moscow time," a spokeswoman for the Moscow inter-regional investigation department on transport of Russia's Investigation Committee, Tatyana Morozova, told Itar-Tass.

Preliminary reports put the casualties at up to 20 people.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development also said initially that 20 people had been affected.

Witnesses say that "very many people were injured" and the building of the airport was filled with smoke.

Police said the explosion had occurred at the entrance from the international arrivals section. An investigation is underway.
Moscow's Domodedovo Airport remains the biggest airport in Russia after 2010.

Airport statistics indicate that passenger traffic increased in 2010 by 19.2 percent to 22.3 million people at Domodedovo, by 31 percent to 19.3 million people at Sheremetyevo, and by 22 percent to 9.4 million people at Vnukovo.