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That's the idea. There were more people waiting for trains inside the station than waiting in line at the metal detector. Russian officials claim that the bar

• magicalist 13y ago
  Well, I don't know the layout of the stations, nor do I have any real knowledge of explosives, so I can't really comment on if they actually helped (more than any normal wall or objects in a room), but if you look at the numbers, 14 and 17 fatalities (with about three times that injured) is near the high end of suicide bombings where the bomb is carried on a person. Suicide bombings in the middle east over the last 10 years, in comparison, have about a 1:3 ratio of bomber to victims. That's a mean, but the outliers tend to barely break 20. So it's difficult to believe that number was reduced by a large amount.
• gumby 13y ago
  <quote>Russian officials claim that the barricades reduced casualties.</quote> Yes they did, but according to this article they claim all sorts of things, much of which is not true: http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/powerlessness-and-pretense/ http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/powerlessness-a... Such as the identity of the bomber (she later posted on her FB page, "Nope, I'm still alive!"). Not that I'm trying to imply that Russian officials are particularly different in this regard!