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    ARMENIAN WOMAN AMONG MOSCOW BOMBING VICTIMS
    Arman Hovannisian, Ruzanna Stepanian

    http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article /1998094.html
    30.03.2010

    A teenage Armenian woman was among 39 people killed in twin suicide
    bombings on Moscow's underground railway, the Armenian Foreign Ministry
    said on Tuesday.

    The explosions, which authorities said were set off by female suicide
    bombers linked to Islamist militants from the North Caucasus, ripped
    through two metro stations in the city center during the Monday
    morning rush hour.

    Thirty-eight people were initially reported killed and more than 70
    others seriously wounded in what was the deadliest attack on the
    Russian capital in six years. A 17-year-old woman, identified as
    Valentina Yegiazarian, died of severe injuries in hospital on Tuesday,
    bringing the death toll to 39.

    Russia -- A relative of a victim of terrorist metro blasts cries
    outside a morgue in Moscow, 30Mar2010Armenian Foreign Ministry
    spokesman Tigran Balayan confirmed her ethnic Armenian origin.

    "Unfortunately, there is an Armenian victim who died in hospital
    today: the 17-year-old Valentina Yegiazarian," he told RFE/RL's
    Armenian service.

    Balayan said two other Russian citizens of Armenian descent,
    both of them women, were also injured in the blasts and required
    hospitalization. Doctors says their condition is "satisfactory,"
    he added.

    President Serzh Sarkisian joined world leaders in condemning the
    bombings and expressing condolences to Russia's leadership and families
    of the victims. "Armenia resolutely condemns any manifestation of
    terrorism," he wrote to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday.

    "I am confident that everything will be done to identify and hold
    accountable the masterminds [of the attacks,]" said Sarkisian.

    Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the culprits must be
    scraped "from the bottom of the sewers" and exposed as Moscow observed
    an official day of mourning on Tuesday. Flags across the city flew
    at half-mast and somber Muscovites laid flowers and lit candles at
    the stations hit by the blasts
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