Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, the busiest in Russia’s capital, has been rocked by an explosion that has reportedly killed 31 people.
More than 100 people were injured in the blast, which reports suggest may have been the work of a suicide bomber.
Russia’s chief investigator said the explosion was the work of terrorists, and President Dmitry Medvedev said the attackers would be tracked down.
Reports say the blast happened in the baggage reclaim area
The airport is 40km (25 miles) south-east of the city centre.
It is popular with foreign workers and tourists.
In the aftermath of the blasts, Mr Medvedev ordered increased security across Russia’s capital and at other airports, and called an emergency meeting with top officials.
‘Almight explosion’
Reports suggested Monday’s blast had hit the baggage reclaim area of the international arrivals hall.
Dozens of ambulances rushed to the scene where emergency services are tending to the wounded.
A RIA Novosti news agency correspondent at the scene reported that a lot of smoke could be seen in the area, and there was a smell of burning.
The UK’s Foreign Office said it was checking if any Britons were involved.
Briton Mark Green, who was on a British Airways flight that landed at the airport before the explosion, told BBC News there were thousands of people gathered in the baggage collection area, baggage hall and queue for immigration at the time of the blast.
“We were walking out through the exit of the arrivals hall towards the car, and there was this almighty explosion, a huge bang, we didn’t know it was an explosion at the time, and my colleague and I looked at each other and said ‘Christ that sounds like a car bomb or something,’ because the noise was, literally, it shook you,” Mr Green told BBC News.
He described scenes of panic and how he gave a drink of water to a bloodied Russian man whose face was blackened with soot.
Last March the Russian capital’s underground system was rocked by two female suicide bombers from Russia’s volatile Dagestan region, who detonated their explosives on the busy metro system during rush hour, killing 40 people and injuring more than 80.
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