Eight foreigners among 35 dead in Moscow airport blast

Eight foreign citizens, including two Britons, were among the 35 people killed in a suicide bombing at Moscow’s busiest airport, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said today.

However, the UK Foreign Office said initial indications were that one British national had died.

A preliminary casualty list published by the ministry shows a German and a Bulgarian among the dead, along with one person each from the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine.

No claim of responsibility has been made for yesterday afternoon’s blast at Domodedovo Airport, which wounded 110 other people. But suspicion is likely to fall on Chechen militants, who have claimed many other terrorist acts in Russia, including last year’s double suicide bombing on the Moscow subway system in which 40 people were killed.