37 killed in Moscow subway by the homicide bombs

As the Washington Post informs, at least 37 people were killed and 33 wounded on Monday when suicide bombers detonated explosives on two packed Moscow metro trains during the morning rush hour, the worst attack in the Russian capital for six years, officials said.

The first blast just before 8 a.m. tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at the Lubyanka metro station. It killed at least 23 people. Another blast about 40 minutes later wrecked the second carriage of a train waiting at the Park Kultury metro station, killing 14 more people, the site informs.

"Two female terrorist suicide bombers carried out these bombings," Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov told reporters at Park Kultury metro station, says the Washington Post.

The current death toll makes it the worst attack on Moscow since February 2004, when a suicide bombing killed at least 39 people and wounded more than 100 on a metro train. Chechen separatists were blamed for that attack, the source reminds.