Attack at the airport in Moscow Over thirty dead, hundreds injured

MOSCOW - An explosion enormous. A force to drop all the snow from the roof of the building. The explosion in Moscow Domodedovo Airport, occurred at 16:32 local time (14:32 in Italy) has killed at least 35 people and injured hundreds (130, including 20 in serious condition), but the budget is uncertain and likely to rise .

Among the injured there were also an Italian and a Frenchman. A suicide bomber wearing between five and seven pounds of TNT, blew himself up in the VIP rooms, restaurant next to Cafe Asia, the airport largest in Russia. The area, accessible to the public, there is no metal detector. The attack was made at a time of big crowds, while 30 incoming flights were referred internzionali 15.

Apparently, the suicide bomber came from the outside, not from a plane, a source told Interfax news agency investigators. The suicide bomber was waiting in the waiting the arrival hall, open to the public outside. "As a result - said the source - the bomb did not arrive in Moscow with a plane, but was introduced from outside." The Moscow Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into terrorism.

There are already three are wanted for the attack, three men would live for some time in the capital. The police said, explaining that the three were taken by the cameras as they entered the arrivals area. Police found the remains of a body that could belong to the suspected terrorists, told the Itar-Tass news agency citing intelligence sources.

It would be a man between 30 and 35, by the 'Arab'. On the spot a dozen ambulances, the wounded were admitted to five hospitals in Moscow, including the main emergency center in the Russian capital. Eyewitnesses reported scenes of terror to many people, some mutilated, who went to the airport bloody and smoke everywhere.

The police had to knock down a wall to allow the evacuation of the hall. The Russian authorities have still not sure of the identities of the victims: the first data you should have in a few hours, reports the Federal Ministry for Emergency Situations. Among the wounded there are two foreign nationals.

"Based on early reports, two foreigners were injured by the explosion," said a medical source. "Both - continued - were hospitalized. Except in the affected area, as reported by some airlines, the airport is currently carrying out its normal activities, said airport spokesman, Ielena Galanova, who also said that there were delays in departure.

''We were closed for about 20 minutes after the explosion,''he said. After the order of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev - who has postponed his departure for the International Economic Forum in Davos - has been strengthened security at other airports in Moscow, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo and St.

Petersburg Pulkovo. The president, speaking at an emergency meeting in the Kremlin, confirmed the acts of terrorism and assured that the culprits will be caught and punished: "We need to establish a special regime to ensure safety." Police monitors all train stations and subways, and was placed an emergency service in all hospitals in the capital.

A witness: "I saw bomber in action." Artiom Zhilenkov, 30, who was at the airport to welcome a passenger, says he saw the bomber:''I saw a man back in the crowd awaiting relatives or friends, I saw that went in their midst and immediately after the explosion occurred,''he told the Itar-Tass and Interfax news agencies.

The bomb''- has aggiuunto - could be on him or in a purse, I was saved by two columns that were to my right and my left and I have protected the wave of the explosion.'' According Zhilenkov, the majority of the victims were people waiting passengers and taxi drivers, often abusive. Air from London and Brussels landed 30 minutes before the explosion.

In the 30 minutes before the attack, had landed at the airport of Domodedovo flights from London and Brussels, as well as from Greece, Ukraine and Egypt. A British Airways flight direct to the airport in Moscow has returned to London instead. Intelligence services warned about possible attacks.

The Russian secret services had been warned "at least a week ago" that someone was planning an attack against one of the airports in Moscow. The source said the security services quoted by Ria Novosti. The condemnation of the international community. The Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi expressed "on behalf of the entire staff and the Government strongly condemns the vile terrorist attack at the airport in Moscow.

The families of the victims, his friend the Russian people and its leaders must be our condolences and our neighborhood, "it said in a statement. "Firmly condemned the serious attack" that took place today at the airport Domodedovo has also been expressed by the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who called the attack an act "barbaric and inexcusable" and also stressed the full support Italy to the Russian government in the fight against terrorism.

Words of condemnation also came from the American president, Barack Obama:''I strongly condemn this heinous act of terrorism against the Russian people.'' The NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said he was "shocked" and has also ensured that the Atlantic Alliance "on Russia's side in the struggle against terrorism.

A harsh condemnation of the Council of Europe during his speech to the Parliamentary Assembly, meeting in plenary session, the Secretary General of the Organization, of which Russia is a Member State has condemned the attack and sent his condolences to the families of victims. The President of the Assembly called for a minute's silence and recalled that all acts of terrorism represent an attack on everything that the Council of Europe stands for.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has called "detestable" and discussed the attack an act of terrorism "barbaric and cowardly". The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, spoke of the light of a "barbaric act" and unjustifiable. "It is with dismay that I learned the news of the airport in Moscow, where many people have lost their lives," said Westerwelle in a statement, I condemn this cruel murder in the strongest.

"The President 's OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis, he made "the most sincere condolences to the bereaved families and wished the injured a speedy recovery. There can be no justification for a brutal attack on innocent civilians.

" The President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, then, stressed that the attack today, "confirms once again the urgent need for international cooperation against terrorism." Solidarity was expressed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier in Russia. This is the first time a terrorist strikes an airport in Moscow.

The last attack on the Russian capital took place in March of last year, when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in the subway, killing 40 people. The first, 17, blew himself up at 7:56 during the stop of a train station Lubyanka and 40 minutes later another woman azionò his weapon station Kultur Park, next to Gorky Park.

The first was the second Chechen and Dagestani. The responsibility then fell on a terrorist group linked to the North Caucasus. Controls on the presence of Italians. The Embassy and the Consulate General of Italy in Moscow for the presence of Italians are among the victims. Domodedovo International Airport is the largest civilian airport in the Russian Federation for the number of passengers (in 2010, more than 22 million people) and is also reached by flights from Italy.

It is located 22 kilometers southeast of Moscow and was inaugurated in 1965. Since 2003, the control tower is capable of handling more than 70 takeoffs and landings per hour. The airport is undergoing expansion to be completed next year, the terminal T3 which will increase the capacity of the airport to 24 million to 28 million passengers a year.

Twitter haywire. Twitter has crashed in central Russia and in some European countries after the attack: 20 minutes after the episode, the network has been invaded by the users to make and deliver information, but did not hold the excess traffic, as reported the agency Ria Novosti. In the first hour after the attack had been posted about 20 000 messages.

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