Four Armenians injured in Moscow airport blast
25.01.2011,
18:19
Four ethnic Armenians were injured in Monday’s blast at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.
YEREVAN, January 25, /ARKA/. Four ethnic Armenians were injured in Monday’s blast at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. They are Galustian Karen M., (born in 1969), Guryan Khachaturov (born in 1946), Yuri Vartanov (born in 1953) and Pogosbekov A.A. (52), according to the Russian health ministry. No Armenians were in another list of the killed people, posted by Russian emergency ministry.
There was no immediate assertion of responsibility for the attack, which killed 35 people and injured over one hundred, 40 of them critically, according to the latest data. Russian authorities said they were investigating leads late Monday. Officials said the bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by a male bomber using about 7 kg of explosives.
They declared a "high terror alert" at Moscow's two other major airports and the subway system. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev went on national TV Monday evening and criticized the lapses that had allowed the bombing to occur.
He offered condolences to the families of those killed, ordered that the wounded be given first-rate medical care and promised to launch a full investigation. He said he was postponing his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he had been scheduled to appear Tuesday.-0-
There was no immediate assertion of responsibility for the attack, which killed 35 people and injured over one hundred, 40 of them critically, according to the latest data. Russian authorities said they were investigating leads late Monday. Officials said the bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by a male bomber using about 7 kg of explosives.
They declared a "high terror alert" at Moscow's two other major airports and the subway system. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev went on national TV Monday evening and criticized the lapses that had allowed the bombing to occur.
He offered condolences to the families of those killed, ordered that the wounded be given first-rate medical care and promised to launch a full investigation. He said he was postponing his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he had been scheduled to appear Tuesday.-0-
