The Domodedovo airport spokesman, Yelena Galánova, updated the death toll of the terrorist attack killed 35 people, but acknowledged that only 46 were injured in the blast in Russia's largest airport. Before the balance of the spokesperson, Ministry of Health, through Maliávina Sofia, had placed the dead in 31 and wounded about 130.According to the Emergency Situations Ministry, more than fifty people, including 35 in serious condition, had to be hospitalized. "The Committee on Instruction (CI) of the Office has described the explosion as a terrorist Domodedovo," said his spokesman, Vladimir Markin. According to police sources quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency the explosion could have been caused by one or more suicide bombers.
The explosion had a power equivalent to between three and 10 kilos of TNT and occurred around 16:32 local time (13:32 GMT) amid a large agglomeration of people in the international arrivals terminal. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered to step up security measures at the terminals of the transport and canceled his participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos, said the Kremlin.
In a special meeting, the Russian leader ordered the Attorney General and the Ministers of Interior and Transportation to strengthen security at all airports and major transportation networks in the country. The Kremlin leader criticized the fact that "far from compliance with the appropriate security measures" and ordered the authorities to "take action." In March 2010, a double suicide bombing killed 40 people and left more than a hundred injured in two subway stations in Moscow.
Domodedovo operating in 76 Russian and foreign companies, including Spanish carrier Iberia, whose last flight was diverted to Moscow's Vnukovo Airport and landed without incident.
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