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Medvedev demands prosecution of officials responsible for security at Domodedovo

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday demanded Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service (FSB) officials responsible for security at Domodedovo International Airport be punished.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday demanded Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service (FSB) officials responsible for security at Domodedovo International Airport be punished.

Medvevdev said he instructed the FSB to determine who was responsible for security at the airport within the service itself and ordered the Interior Ministry to introduce proposals on how to prosecute those who failed to ensure proper security.

"The FSB management must deal with issues of responsibility of officials in the service itself," Medvedev said. "I entrust the FSB director to submit proposals."

"I entrust the Interior Ministry to submit proposals for the dismissal or other prosecution of the ministry's officials responsible for transportation security," Medvedev said. "I instruct the Russian government to consider the issues of liability of the persons responsible for security on transportation," he continued. "I instruct prosecutors and the Investigation Committee to consider the criminal liability of these persons."

At least 35 people were killed and 180 injured in the suicide attack at Domodedovo Airport's arrivals gate on Monday. Unconfirmed reports said a female suicide bomber was accompanied by a man whose head was ripped off by the blast.

Medvedev blamed security violations for the deadly blast at the airport.

Police officers and security staff on duty at the Moscow airport hit by the deadly suicide bombing will be investigated for possible negligence, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday.

The law enforcement source said security and police in the arrival zone were not alert enough to possible dangers, adding that the airport security officials "turned a blind eye to the presence of unauthorized persons."

The source said the security system in the area was poor despite earlier demands by officials to improve it. He also said all the airport staff, many of whom come from Russian regions, must be checked.

A police source earlier told RIA Novosti that the security services were aware that terrorists were planning an attack on a Moscow airport, but were unable to locate and detain the three suspects they had been searching for.

This is not the first time Domodedovo has been targeted by terrorists. Two planes which took off from the airport, Moscow's busiest, were blown up by female Chechen suicide bombers in August 2004, killing a total of 90 people.

MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti) 

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