Moscow explosions are terrorist attacks

At least 34 people were killed and dozens more injured when suicide bombers attacked the Moscow metro at the height of rush hour this morning, the Times Online reports.

The first blast came at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow at 0756 (0356 GMT) killing 22 people.

The headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the Soviet-era KGB, is located above the station which is just yards away the Kremlin, the sours informs.

Around 45 minutes later at 0838 (0438 GMT) the second explosion happened at Park Kultury station, killing at least 12 more people. "There are killed and injured," a security source said.

The blasts were caused by suicide bombers wearing belts packed with explosives, Moscow's chief prosecutor Yuri Syomin told reporters, informs the source.

The last fatal attack on the Moscow underground was in 2004. That attack, which killed 39 people and wounded another 150, was claimed by Chechen terrorists, The Times Online recalls.