MOSCOW, FEBRUARY 6, 2004, /RIA-NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT/ -- Preliminary reports have it that 22 people were killed and over 30 wounded as a result of a subway-car blast on the Zamoskvoretskaya line, RIA-NOVOSTI learned at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry here today.
The explosion took place during the rush hour when local residents go to work, damaging a subway-train car along the Zamoskvoretskaya line, which is one of the Moscow subway network's longest.
Search-and-rescue squads are working at the scene.
