All of the victims, including foreigners injured in Monday's terrorist attack on the capital's Domodedovo Airport, will receive cash compensation from the Moscow budget, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Wednesday.
A powerful blast struck the busy international terminal of Russia's biggest airport on Monday evening, killing 35 people and injuring scores. A suicide bomber is believed to have detonated the bomb, which was equal to 7 kg of TNT.
In addition to federal payments, Moscow decided to cough up 2 million rubles ($67,204) to families of the those Muscovites who died in the deadly bombing, 1.5 million rubles ($50,403) to those who were severely wounded and 1 million rubles ($33,602) to those who were slightly wounded.
"Terrorists don't care, they don't pay attention to nationality or religion. They don't care who they blow up. But we are doing everything possible to help people. Compensations that we defined for Muscovites will pertain to foreigners also," Sobyanin said.
The Moscow mayor said that nationals from 10 countries were wounded in the airport blast.
MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
