MOSCOW. April 26 (Interfax) - Reports on the detention of two people suspected of planning new bombings in the Moscow Metro by a number of media outlets on Friday are untrue, a source close to the investigation into the March 29 bombings in the Moscow Metro told Interfax.
In the course of an investigation into the March 29 bombings on Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations, "a number of people living in different regions of Russia, including Dagestan, have been detained to check their possible involvement in the organization of those crimes," the source said.
"However, the investigative actions envisioned in such cases by the law have not revealed any information on these people's membership of terrorist groups, and they have all been set free," he said.
Interfax could not immediately obtain official comments on this information.
A number of Internet publications reported on Friday citing a police source that a 30-year-old resident of Dagestan and a 22-year-old woman from Ufa were detained on Profsoyuznaya Street in Moscow. According to the reports, the two were suspected of looking for people ready to commit new bombings in the Moscow Metro for $1 million.
Two bombings on the morning of March 29 killed 40 and injured some 100 people. The investigation believes the attacks were committed by female suicide bombers.