MOSCOW - A SUSPECTED suicide bombing on Monday killed at least
31 people and wounded over 100 at Moscow's Domodedovo international
airport in an attack described by investigators as an act of
terror.
Eyewitnesses who spoke to Russian radio described a scene of
carnage after the blast ripped through the baggage claims section
of the arrivals hall at Russia's largest airport.
'Today at 4.32pm (9.32pm Singapore time) an explosion went off
in the international arrivals hall of Domodedovo airport,' the
Russian investigative committee said in a statement.
The spokesman for the committee, Vladimir Markin, said that a
criminal inquiry had been opened into an 'act of terror'.
An official with the investigators, Tatyana Morozova, told the
Interfax news agency that the blast happened in the baggage claim
area.
At least 31 people were killed and 130 wounded in the blast,
Interfax said, quoting an official with the health ministry. --
AFP
