Kingpin
12-09-2003, 07:12 AM
BBC called "car blast" but they wrong.
Hell, i today planned to visit this place to take money from my account in bank.
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Russian TV pictures showed a car wrecked in the blast
A suspected suicide bombing near Red Square in Moscow has killed five people and wounded several others.
The blast happened on a busy shopping street only a few hundred metres from the Kremlin in the heart of the city.
In a speech soon afterwards, President Vladimir Putin said "terrorists" threatened the nation's development.
The blast comes days after a suicide bomb attack on a train in southern Russia that killed 44 people and officials blamed on Chechen rebels.
Windows shattered
The Moscow bomb went off just before 1100 local time (0800 GMT) outside the National Hotel on the capital's main shopping street, Tverskaya Street.
Four people died at the scene, and another later in hospital. Thirteen people were reportedly wounded.
A Mercedes sedan was destroyed in the explosion, but it is unclear whether the explosion was a car bomb.
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzkov described the attack as a botched attack by at least one, but probably two, women suicide bombers.
The bomber or bombers had earlier asked a passer-by the way to the State Duma - the lower house of parliament, he said.
"Evidently, the bomb went off by accident," he was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
"The National Hotel was not the place where the suicide bombers had planned to stage the explosion."
Police spokesman Yevgeny Gildeyev said police investigators were becoming increasingly persuaded the blast was related to terrorism, rather than to a business dispute, AP said.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has also said it considers the bombing a terrorist act, according to Russian agencies.
The hotel sits on a corner opposite a gate leading into Red Square and the Kremlin. First and second-floor windows along the street were blown out.
Bomb scene
"We felt a kind of whoosh, heard a bang, and saw smoke," an unidentified witness told Russian state television, according to *******.
A ******* correspondent reports seeing the severed head of a woman lying on the pavement next to a briefcase, as well as flesh on the snowy pavements.
Television pictures also showed a body lying outside the hotel, behind a destroyed car.
Police cordoned off the area and brought in a bomb disposal robot to locate undetonated explosives reportedly found on one body at the scene.
Bomb disposal experts then carried out two controlled explosions, one on a handbag apparently suspected of containing explosives.
Hell, i today planned to visit this place to take money from my account in bank.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39613000/gif/_39613977_russia_moscow2_map203.gif
Russian TV pictures showed a car wrecked in the blast
A suspected suicide bombing near Red Square in Moscow has killed five people and wounded several others.
The blast happened on a busy shopping street only a few hundred metres from the Kremlin in the heart of the city.
In a speech soon afterwards, President Vladimir Putin said "terrorists" threatened the nation's development.
The blast comes days after a suicide bomb attack on a train in southern Russia that killed 44 people and officials blamed on Chechen rebels.
Windows shattered
The Moscow bomb went off just before 1100 local time (0800 GMT) outside the National Hotel on the capital's main shopping street, Tverskaya Street.
Four people died at the scene, and another later in hospital. Thirteen people were reportedly wounded.
A Mercedes sedan was destroyed in the explosion, but it is unclear whether the explosion was a car bomb.
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzkov described the attack as a botched attack by at least one, but probably two, women suicide bombers.
The bomber or bombers had earlier asked a passer-by the way to the State Duma - the lower house of parliament, he said.
"Evidently, the bomb went off by accident," he was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
"The National Hotel was not the place where the suicide bombers had planned to stage the explosion."
Police spokesman Yevgeny Gildeyev said police investigators were becoming increasingly persuaded the blast was related to terrorism, rather than to a business dispute, AP said.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has also said it considers the bombing a terrorist act, according to Russian agencies.
The hotel sits on a corner opposite a gate leading into Red Square and the Kremlin. First and second-floor windows along the street were blown out.
Bomb scene
"We felt a kind of whoosh, heard a bang, and saw smoke," an unidentified witness told Russian state television, according to *******.
A ******* correspondent reports seeing the severed head of a woman lying on the pavement next to a briefcase, as well as flesh on the snowy pavements.
Television pictures also showed a body lying outside the hotel, behind a destroyed car.
Police cordoned off the area and brought in a bomb disposal robot to locate undetonated explosives reportedly found on one body at the scene.
Bomb disposal experts then carried out two controlled explosions, one on a handbag apparently suspected of containing explosives.