Power agents report detention of suspects of Moscow metro terror acts

According to a source in Moscow power agencies, several persons have been detained as suspects of preparing and executing terror acts in Moscow metro on March 29. The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation does not confirm this information.

Let us remind you that as a result of two explosions committed by female suicide-bombers in the morning on March 29 in Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations of the Sokolniki line of Moscow metro, 40 persons were lost and over 130 were injured.

The detention of terror act figurants was reported by the RIA "Novosti", which referred to its source in Moscow power agencies. The source refused to disclose details but added that the detainees were checked for possible involvement in a number of other terror acts. Law enforcers refused to comment but confirmed the fact of detention.

So far, the ICPO has not confirmed that particular figurants of Moscow metro explosions were detained. "There are no detainees on this criminal case yet," the "Interfax" quotes the ICPO's spokesman as saying.

Meanwhile, the results of the polls conducted on April 9-13 by the Levada Centre in Moscow, St Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Ekaterinburg and Novosibirsk show that the majority of the residents of mega-cities (88 percent) believe that the Russian leadership bears responsibility for the "terror war" underway in the country.

Besides, Russians do not rely very much on the measures of power agents aimed towards prevention of new terror acts. More than a half of the respondents (55 percent) also believe that Russian special services had known about preparation of terror acts in Moscow metro, but were so incompetent that could not prevent them.

The "Caucasian Knot" reported earlier that it became known on April 6 that the explosion in Lubyanka station was committed by Maryam Sharipova, a native of Dagestan and the wife of Magomedali Vagabov, one of the leaders of Dagestan militants. The other female suicide-bomber, who blew her up in the Park Kultury station, was identified, according to the investigation, as Jennet Abdurakhmanova, 17, the widow of Umalat Magomedov, a leader of Dagestan militants, liquidated in late December 2009.

Anvar Sharipov, Maryam's brother, was announced into the federal search on suspicion of involvement in terror acts. However, Sharipov himself, who is hiding from inspectors, insists that he had nothing to do with the crimes, and even did not know about the arrival of his sister in Moscow where he lives with his family.