The Belarusian security forces have arrested two terrorist suspects on Monday left twelve dead and a hundred and fifty wounded in the Minsk metro, announced Assistant Attorney General of Belarus Andrei Shved. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, said shortly after the two have confessed their involvement.
Shved hours earlier claimed that "one can assume with a high degree of probability that one of those arrested is the perpetrator (the attack), who noted that this assumption is based on the study of images captured by camera subway security, according to the Belarusian capital from the agency Interfax.
He explained that the video recording "it is clear how the suspect arrives at the station (metro) 'Kupálovskaya', low (the) 'Oktiábraskaya', is seen on the platform, leave a bag on a bench there is progress manipulating something in the pocket of his jerkin, after which the explosion occurs.
" The Deputy Attorney General and head of the task force investigating the terrorist attack told reporters that both detainees are Belarusian citizens, who hail from the same city, "is known for a long time and have no criminal record." "They have been subjected to the first interrogation in the presence of lawyers and have given their opening statements," he said.
According to the investigation, the bomb that exploded at the station 'Oktiábraskaya', a power equivalent to that of at least three kilograms of TNT, contained shrapnel such as ball bearings, nails and metal pieces and sought "to cause maximum damage" . The attack occurred just minutes from six in the evening rush hour, when the station 'Oktiábraskaya', which links government buildings and headquarters of major industrial enterprises in the city with the suburbs, was crowded with passengers .
In turn, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, has refused to confirm the authorship of the detainees, both of this attack as 2008: "not only confessed terrorist act in the metro, but also the attacks in the Day Independence in 2008 and the city of Vitebsk "also took the opportunity to state that opposition politicians should be questioned regarding a connection with the attack.
The Belarusian authorities decreed national mourning today for the victims of terrorist attack. 
Shved hours earlier claimed that "one can assume with a high degree of probability that one of those arrested is the perpetrator (the attack), who noted that this assumption is based on the study of images captured by camera subway security, according to the Belarusian capital from the agency Interfax.
He explained that the video recording "it is clear how the suspect arrives at the station (metro) 'Kupálovskaya', low (the) 'Oktiábraskaya', is seen on the platform, leave a bag on a bench there is progress manipulating something in the pocket of his jerkin, after which the explosion occurs.
" The Deputy Attorney General and head of the task force investigating the terrorist attack told reporters that both detainees are Belarusian citizens, who hail from the same city, "is known for a long time and have no criminal record." "They have been subjected to the first interrogation in the presence of lawyers and have given their opening statements," he said.
According to the investigation, the bomb that exploded at the station 'Oktiábraskaya', a power equivalent to that of at least three kilograms of TNT, contained shrapnel such as ball bearings, nails and metal pieces and sought "to cause maximum damage" . The attack occurred just minutes from six in the evening rush hour, when the station 'Oktiábraskaya', which links government buildings and headquarters of major industrial enterprises in the city with the suburbs, was crowded with passengers .
In turn, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, has refused to confirm the authorship of the detainees, both of this attack as 2008: "not only confessed terrorist act in the metro, but also the attacks in the Day Independence in 2008 and the city of Vitebsk "also took the opportunity to state that opposition politicians should be questioned regarding a connection with the attack.
The Belarusian authorities decreed national mourning today for the victims of terrorist attack.
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