The Wire

Thirty-eight people were killed and dozens injured in twin bombings on the Moscow metro during yesterday’s morning rush hour. The blasts came 40 minutes apart, the first tearing through the central Lubyanka train station around 8am. Russian officials announced that both terrorist operatives were women, invoking the specter of ‘black widows’, female extremists from the turbulent North Caucuses. It’s the deadliest bombing in Russia since 2004, when 39 were killed in a near-identical attack on the Moscow metro system.