Monday's grisly airport bombing is the latest in a string of Russian security failures: More than 500 have been killed by terrorists since Putin rose to power. Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova report on what's gone wrong.
The scene inside the arrivals hall at Moscow's Domodedovo airport was like a battlefield: heavy smoke stung the eyes, bodies were stacked in heaps. By the wrecked Asia café at least 15 corpses were jumbled together in a tangle. "There were many people with terrible wounds; many had lost limbs," says 27-year-old Alexander Dimchenko, a taxi driver who says he was just 10 yards from the blast but was saved by a concrete pillar. "We loaded bodies on luggage trolleys ... The bomb was stuffed with metal that ripped up human bodies." The latest casualty count stands at 35 killed and 168 injured. Anna Mishutina, a celebrated playwright from Ukraine, was among those killed, according to her friend Natalia Antonova.
The scene inside the arrivals hall at Moscow's Domodedovo airport was like a battlefield: heavy smoke stung the eyes, bodies were stacked in heaps. By the wrecked Asia café at least 15 corpses were jumbled together in a tangle. "There were many people with terrible wounds; many had lost limbs," says 27-year-old Alexander Dimchenko, a taxi driver who says he was just 10 yards from the blast but was saved by a concrete pillar. "We loaded bodies on luggage trolleys ... The bomb was stuffed with metal that ripped up human bodies." The latest casualty count stands at 35 killed and 168 injured. Anna Mishutina, a celebrated playwright from Ukraine, was among those killed, according to her friend Natalia Antonova.
- 1/24/2011
- by Owen Matthews & Anna Nemtsova
- The Daily Beast
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