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As many as 36 persons killed in an explosion caused by a suicide bomber at the international arrivals hall of Moscow's airport on Monday.According to law enforcement sources, the mid-afternoon explosion at Domodedovo Airport may have been caused by a suicide bomber. Those at the airport said it was filled with thousands of people at the time and the terminal filled up quickly with smoke. From the preliminary information we have, it was a terror attack, President Dmitry Medvedev told officials in a televised briefing. He ordered authorities to beef up security at Moscow's two other commercial airports and other transport facilities, including the subway system, the target of past terror attacks. Although there have been repeated attacks on the Moscow subway and Russian trains - most blamed on Chechen militants - the bombing Monday was the first involving a Russian airport since 2004. CCTV footage of this incident has also been released.
