Russia's top anti-terror agency on Tuesday confirmed Maryam Sharipova, a 28-year old IT teacher from a Caucasus village as one of the two suicide bombers, who blew herself up at Moscow's metro Lubyanka station last week.
Russian investigators have identified a 17-year-old baby-faced widow of a Caucasus militant as one of the two 'Black Widows' involved in Monday's twin suicide attack in Moscow metro that killed 40 people.
The first explosion hit the second carriage of a train at the central Lubyanka station at 7.52 am (9.22 IST) killing some 35 people, spokesperson of Moscow Metro railway Svetlana Tsaryova told ITAR-TASS.
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Here are some of the worst terror attacks in recent history with trains and passengers as intended targets.
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