Russia announces special security regime after airport blast
By 9 pm of
Jan. 24 (local time), at least 35 people were killed and 168 other
injured, including two foreigners, in a suicide bombing at Domodedovo
international airport .
The blast took place at 4.40 pm of
Jan. 24. Meanwhile a Vietnam Airlines flight from Ho Chi Minh City to
Moscow was about to land at 5.30 pm the same day. To date, there is
no information relating to Vietnamese passengers’ casualty.
However,
after the explosion, Russian relevant agencies had decided to ask
Vietnam Airlines’ and other countries’ flights to move to
Sheremetievo and Vnukovo airports for taking off and landing.
President
Medvedev also ordered relevant agencies to recover the blast’s
aftermath, including giving emergency aid and assistance to injured
people.
The President canceled his tour of Davos to attend the World Economic Forum planned for this week.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin directed Russian officials and
related agencies to conduct emergency measures to help families of
death and injured people.
The Interfax news agency said
investigators found the head of a 30-35 year-old Arabian man, who was
thought suspected bomber of the attack.
Earlier, Russian security agencies had received a warn of an attack to a Moscow airport.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Jan. 24 strongly condemned the
suicide bombin at Domodedovo airport while Secretary General of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Aders Fogh Rasmussen showed its
“solidarity” to Russia .
The same day, leaders of the US,
UK, France, Bulgaria, Germany, Egypt, Jordan, Canada and
Australia strongly condemned the cruel bombing.
Together with Sheremetievo, Domodedovo is one of the two largest
international airport in Moscow. In 2010, the airport carried 22.3
million passengers.
The Jan. 24 suicide bombing at the
airport is considered the largest ever from the beginning of the year
and the second one after a bomb attack on the Moscow metro on March 29,
2010, which killed 40 people and injured more than 100 others./.