Posted on 02/06/2006 2:56:37 AM PST by lizol
Moscow mourns victims of subway bomb blast in 2004
06.02.2006, 11.05
MOSCOW, February 6 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow pays tribute to the victims of a bomb attack on a packed Moscow underground train exactly two years ago. Forty-two people were killed in the suicide bomb attack.
Relatives and friends of the blast victims, passengers injured in the blast as well as other Muscovites flocked on Monday at the site of the tragedy, Avtozavodskaya station.
The head of the Moscow Metro, Dmitry Gayev, and the head of Moscow’s Southern District, Pyotr Biryukov, put flowers to the memorial plaque with the names of the blast victims. The plaque was unveiled at the platform of Avdozavodskaya two years ago.
At 8:40, the exact time when the bomb ripped through the second carriage of the train at the height of rush hour, all underground trains gave long whistles.
Many Muscovites rushing to their offices on Monday leave flowers, candles and icons at the memorial plaque.
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You know, I think we should separate stupid or even unfriendly actions of Russian authorities from personal tragedies of those people.
Yeah, I'm not any kind of specialist on those issues, but it seems to me, that in a metro tunnel - when the explosion blows up, and the pressure has limited space to spread - the result must be just horrible.
It's probably much more difficult to survive such a blow, than if it happened outside.
Thank you for your condolences.
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My God! Horrible.
My deepest, and sincere condolences once again.
You see, it's really something absolutely different, when such a thing happens to the person you know, or at least know his/her story.
I remember last week - when that construction disaster happened in Poland and more than 60 people got killed.
When I was watching TV it was horrible, but it was a bit like a movie.
And I remember one older man - survivor from the disater, interviewed by a journalist. He told he managed to escape running to one side, whereas his son had run to the other. He had no contact with his son since that moment. But he was so optimistic, that everything was going to be fine. He was praising the rescue teams for doinfg great job and was waiting for them to rescue his son.
And 1 hour later the same reporter told - "Remember the man I talked to 1 hour ago? Unfortunately it turned out, that his son didn't make it".
And it was so sad.
I'm sorry to hear that. My stepdaughter lost a couple of friends when the plane flying from Moscow to Volgograd was bombed in August 2004.
Indeed this was a tragic event.
I was actually there within hours of this blast and I know a guy who was on the metro within minutes of it.
Very sad.
My mother used to work near "Avtozavodskaya" station in 2003, her work started at 9 a.m. The bomb blasted at 8.40. For some hours i couldn't reach her. I couldn't belive that it was real, that i'm not sleeping & having a bad dream, at 11 finaly, i've heard her voice but i couldn't stop crying, shaking my hands. It was like you see the person leaving the home for a work & in an hour the bomb blasted. It was so close...
Thanks Lizol. There is so much going on in the world that we tend to forget to remember the victims of terror. Thanks for remembering them.
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