Moscow metro to get CCTV in all carriages

The Moscow metro system will have surveillance cameras installed in every train carriage by the end of next year as part of stepped-up security measures following the London Underground and bus bombings, its director said today.

Dmitry Gayev said that the cameras would be introduced on the main Circle Line by the end of 2005 – and a year later the surveillance system would be operational on the remainder of the underground railway network.

This would not guarantee “that nothing will ever happen, but it will make things more difficult” for terrorists, he said.

Russia has suffered a series of terrorist attacks in recent years linked to separatists from the mainly Muslim southern province of Chechnya.

Moscow’s metro saw two terror attacks last year. In August, a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a station, killing 10 people and injuring more than 50, and in February 41 people were killed in a rush-hour explosion in a carriage.