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Explosion in Moscow: Terrorism Not Ruled Out
Aired February 06, 2004 - 05:06 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: All right. We want to get more now on that big explosion in the Moscow subway system. Dozens of people are dead and officials are not ruling ou9t a terrorist attack.
Live now to the Russian capital and Moscow producer, Nastya Anashkina, who is on the scene.
Hello. Bring us up to date.
NASTYA ANASHKINA, CNN MOSCOW PRODUCER: Hello, Carol.
I'm right now at the huge Paveletskaya train station. This is the entrance of Paveletskaya metro station as well, where a lot of people who are caught in that train explosion were coming out just a few hours ago. We saw people coming out with their faces covered in blood, with their clothes torn. Some of them were carried out. And they were all shocked and terrified by what they witnessed.
They were telling us that they saw a huge explosion - that all the windows in the train went off and they had to get out of the train and run to seek for help and seek for some sort of help from medics and police. They were running for about a mile, or at least a little more than a mile, in complete darkness with smoke filling the tunnel trying to find the exit.
Right now, the situation here is coming back to order. Authorities are trying to restore traffic, trying to bring more buses from all around the city to help people who come here by train to get to their destinations. And they're trying to bring life here back to normal, even though fear is still among those who come over here because nobody right now can even think of taking a metro, even though they have to because there are simply afraid that something else can happen - Carol.
COSTELLO: I can't say that I blame them.
Nastya, was this explosive device - was it in the tunnel or was it on board a train?
ANASHKINA: Well, it is unclear. The investigation is under way. There are reports that there was an explosive device on the train. It is also unclear whether that was a suicide bomber. But there were reports of that as well.
So, from what we know at this point, the explosive device was probably located on the train in the second cabin from the beginning of that train. COSTELLO: And we - the latest casualty figures we got, our death toll, was 30. Is that right?
ANASHKINA: I guess so, because also it is unclear because a lot of people are in a difficult condition, and they were rushed to the hospitals and many hospitals were receiving injured people. But that - that is what were the reports so far.
COSTELLO: All right. Nastya Anashkina, reporting live from Moscow. We'll have much more on this in the hours to come on DAYBREAK.
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Aired February 6, 2004 - 05:06 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: All right. We want to get more now on that big explosion in the Moscow subway system. Dozens of people are dead and officials are not ruling ou9t a terrorist attack.
Live now to the Russian capital and Moscow producer, Nastya Anashkina, who is on the scene.
Hello. Bring us up to date.
NASTYA ANASHKINA, CNN MOSCOW PRODUCER: Hello, Carol.
I'm right now at the huge Paveletskaya train station. This is the entrance of Paveletskaya metro station as well, where a lot of people who are caught in that train explosion were coming out just a few hours ago. We saw people coming out with their faces covered in blood, with their clothes torn. Some of them were carried out. And they were all shocked and terrified by what they witnessed.
They were telling us that they saw a huge explosion - that all the windows in the train went off and they had to get out of the train and run to seek for help and seek for some sort of help from medics and police. They were running for about a mile, or at least a little more than a mile, in complete darkness with smoke filling the tunnel trying to find the exit.
Right now, the situation here is coming back to order. Authorities are trying to restore traffic, trying to bring more buses from all around the city to help people who come here by train to get to their destinations. And they're trying to bring life here back to normal, even though fear is still among those who come over here because nobody right now can even think of taking a metro, even though they have to because there are simply afraid that something else can happen - Carol.
COSTELLO: I can't say that I blame them.
Nastya, was this explosive device - was it in the tunnel or was it on board a train?
ANASHKINA: Well, it is unclear. The investigation is under way. There are reports that there was an explosive device on the train. It is also unclear whether that was a suicide bomber. But there were reports of that as well.
So, from what we know at this point, the explosive device was probably located on the train in the second cabin from the beginning of that train. COSTELLO: And we - the latest casualty figures we got, our death toll, was 30. Is that right?
ANASHKINA: I guess so, because also it is unclear because a lot of people are in a difficult condition, and they were rushed to the hospitals and many hospitals were receiving injured people. But that - that is what were the reports so far.
COSTELLO: All right. Nastya Anashkina, reporting live from Moscow. We'll have much more on this in the hours to come on DAYBREAK.
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