Suicide Bombings Strike Moscow Metro

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Emeregency workers enter a pedestrian underpass to get to Lubyanka's metro station. While no group has yet said it carried out the attacks, previous suicide bombings in the capital have been carried out by or blamed on Islamist rebels fighting for independence in Chechnya. Last month, Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov said "the zone of military operations will be extended to the territory of Russia ... the war is coming to their cities."

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