13 May 2010, 20:00

FSB identified all the figurants in the case of suicide bombers on Moscow metro

Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov has declared that the executors and organizers of the Moscow bombing were identified; some of them were already killed. In his turn, Medvedev stated that terrorists deserve no quarter.

We would remind you that as consequence of two blasts carried out by suicide women-bombers on the morning of 29 March in Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro stations in Moscow, 40 persons were killed and above 130 were injured with varied severity.

According to Bortnikov, the investigation considers as the final established facts that the terrorist act in Park Kultury metro station was executed by Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova (Abdulayeva) and the terrorist act in Lubyanka metro station - by Mariam Sharipova.

The FSB Director also said that security forces attempted to detain the three, included the individual who accompanied the suicide bombers to Moscow, and were destroyed, - informs ITAR-TASS. For the moment, the other persons involved in this terrorist acts are being seek.

In turn, chairman of the investigation committee at the Russian Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Bastrykin reported that two investigation teams were formed for the Moscow metro terrorist act investigation and they are working together both in Moscow and in the Northern Caucasus.

Having listened to the power bodies reports, Medvedev said that the security forces should kill those terrorists involved in the metro blasts, which showed resistance, and appealed to show them no mercy. The Russian president instructed to report regularly not only to him but to the public as well, because it is an extremely high-profile case, Interfax reports.

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