Russian authorities blamed Islamist militants from the North Caucasus after two female suicide bombers killed at least 38 people and injured 64 in attacks on Moscow's underground during the morning rush hour yesterday.

　　俄罗斯当局指责来自北高加索地区的伊斯兰武装分子制造了莫斯科地铁爆炸案。昨天早晨上班高峰时间,两名女性在莫斯科地铁发动自杀式袭击，造成至少38人死亡，64受伤。

　　The first explosion tore through the second carriage of a train at Lubyanka metro station at 7.50am. The second, about 40 minutes later, went off in a carriage at Park Kultury station, opposite Gorky Park.

　　第一起爆炸发生在上午7点50分，爆炸撕开了卢比扬卡(Lubyanka)地铁站一辆列车的第二节车厢。第二起爆炸发生在大约40分钟之后，炸弹在高尔基公园(Gorky Park)对面文化公园站(Park Kultury)的一辆列车中爆炸。

Aleksandr Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security Service, the secret police, said: “The preliminary version indicates the terrorist act was carried out by a group with links to the Northern Caucasus, and we consider this the most likely version.”

　　俄罗斯秘密警察机构联邦安全局(Federal Security Service)负责人亚历山大·博尔特尼科夫(Aleksandr Bortnikov)表示：“初步调查表明，此次恐怖主义袭击是由一个与北高加索地区有关的团伙实施的，我们认为这是最有可能的结论。”

　　Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, said the fight against terrorism would be carried out “without hesitation, to the end” and ordered securityintensified across the country.

　　俄罗斯总统德米特里·梅德韦杰夫(Dmitry Medvedev)表示，将“毫不犹豫，坚持到底地”开展反对恐怖主义的斗争，他下令加强全国的安全措施。

　　Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, who as president in 1999 launched a war to crush Chechen separatism, broke off a trip to Siberia and declared “terrorists will be destroyed”.

　　俄罗斯总理弗拉基米尔·普京(Vladimir Putin)中断了前往西伯利亚的行程，并宣布“将消灭恐怖分子”。在1999年担任总统时，普京曾发动一场旨在粉碎车臣分裂势力的战争。

Police said they had found remains at both sites, including the head of what they believed was one of the bombers. The police were looking for two women who apparently accompanied the suspected bombers.

　　警方说，他们在上述两个地铁站都发现了爆炸残留物，其中包括他们认为是人弹袭击者之一的头颅。警方正在寻找两名显然曾陪伴嫌犯行动的妇女。

　　The FSB said it suspected the explosive hexogen was used and estimated the strength of the blasts at 4kg of TNTequivalent for the Lubyanka station bombing and up to 2kg for the Park Kultury attack.

　　俄罗斯联邦安全局表示，它怀疑袭击者使用了黑索今炸药，估计卢比扬卡站的爆炸当量相当于4公斤TNT，文化公园站的当量为两公斤TNT。