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charged passengers up to 3,000 rubles ($100) for a 7-km ride from the Komsomolskaya subway station to Park Kultury after the section between the stations was closed following the blasts.

Russia"s top investigator Vladimir Markin said police were working on identifying the two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks. He added that the women"s faces had not suffered in the blasts.

Markin earlier told journalists that the second attack had been carried out by a "dark-haired woman" and that "fragments of her body" found at the scene suggested she had had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to her waist.

The head of the Federal Security Services (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said terrorists from Russia"s North Caucasus may have been involved in the attacks.

He also said the bomb at the Lubyanka station exploded with a force of up to 4 kg of TNT. He added that in both cases the bombs were packed with metal nuts and bolts to increase the

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