Witnesses of the attack in Moscow: "There are body parts"

The attack took Moscow during rush hour: At the airport Domodedovo is extremely busy, as in the arrivals hall exploded a bomb. Eye witnesses tell of harrowing scenes at the scene. Also a German should be among the injured. It was the Twitter user Likhtenfeld Ilya, who reported about 16:30 clock time first: "horrible terrorist act in Moscow explosion in the building of the airport dozens of bodies torn apart people!" Take the first videos came out of the terminal, also commonly via Twitter.

They showed the desperate situation in the airport just minutes after the attack: men are wrong with flashlights through the dense smoke. At one point it burns to the ground you can see outlines of dozens of motionless bodies, screams are heard, cases and overturned trolleys lying around.

Then paramedics already running in blue jackets with mobile stretchers on the floor inside the airport Domodedovo. "Out of my way!" They shout. From the ground the radio of a veritable bloodbath. "There was an explosion," an eyewitness told the radio station Russkaya Sluschba Nowostei. "Then I saw a police officer who was covered with body parts and blood." Among the victims should be according to the Russian agency Inferfax also a German.

The condition of the woman is stable, the agency reported, citing doctors. The identity of the woman was not known VRST. The German Embassy in Moscow could not immediately confirm the information. Even the Foreign Office were initially not been demonstrated. According to him, but the Embassy staff at the airport and in contact with the Russian authorities.

Minutes after the explosion landed at the international terminal of the airport a plane of Air Berlin from Berlin. Lufthansa had to divert three flights to Moscow. "Here, people walk around with burns, and body parts lying on stretchers," said an eyewitness named Andrei, who was at the time of the explosion at the information desk, the station City FM.

"Here, something terrible." Another witness named Alexei says: "We simply are not safe in this country." A Lufthansa flight attendant named Elena news agency reports a "big bang": ". All were in shock" The witness confirmed Lew Grigorian Channel Rain: "There was an explosion, then smoke was everywhere." The windows of the shattered display cases.

There were many wounded, "said a young Russian woman, see their trembling voice suggests that she has not yet recovered from the shock. "Thank God I'm alive." Head of the suspected bomber found And it was told just before he detonated the explosive device, is the suspected suicide bombers have reportedly called: "I will kill you all" The eyewitnesses said the Russian broadcaster Vesti 24, according to several Twitter users.

In the evening, the police announced that they had found the head of the suspected bomber. There were a man aged between 30 and 35 years with a Mediterranean look. According to Russian media reports is believed that the man came from the conflict zone in the Russian North Caucasus. In the region, supplying terrorists, criminal gangs and the Kremlin-loyal units almost daily skirmishes.

Islamists have threatened repeatedly to take on terrorism in the Russian capital. In recent years, Russia has been repeatedly attacked by terrorists. The attack in the arrivals hall of the airport to the Russian authorities, at least 35 people have been killed. It was not clear initially on the number of casualties.

The authorities said 46 people, Russian media and an airport spokeswoman reported contrast of more than 170 injured. Again, the terrorists had chosen a Monday - as early as March of last year. At that time, had two bombers from the North Caucasus during rush hour in the Moscow Metro blown up and torn down with 41 people to death.

The leader of the Islamists in the North Caucasus, Emir Doku Umarov, pleaded to the assassination. Who is behind the assassination of this Monday, is previously unknown. There is no claim of responsibility but it does not. A natural assumption is that there is a link to jihadists from the region of Chechnya, known as the Emirate of Caucasus are.

However, it is there over the past year to internal faults. The leader, Emir Doku Umarov, has delivered a public leadership dispute with his vice. Whether the organization has split really is open. Rescuer stuck in traffic, confusion still firmly on the style of the attack. While most of the media assume that the bomb was dumped in a suitcase and was detonated by mobile phone, reports the Internet newspaper "Gazeta.

Ru", citing witnesses, that the bomb was detonated by a suicide bomber. A further difficulty in the evacuation of the wounded by the fact that the attack occurred just before the Moscow rush hour. The Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye-road, leading from the city to the airport, are traditionally very strongly affected by the dam.

This has been a problem for emergency personnel. "The driver let the ambulance through not," reported several Russians via Twitter directly from the congestion. The television station Rossiya-24 shows in the evening a dejected President, Dmitry Medvedev, who finds out that apparently not all the security measures that have been arranged after the terrorist attacks last March, "have been executed as planned." He ordered additional security measures at all airports and transport hubs.

The two large state-owned television channels interrupted their program is not the way. They showed how the planned shipments "The Institute of noble maidens" and "Let's get married".

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