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Russian experts are working with Belarus to search for clues at the station where the detonation occurred. Also come from Israel today, a team of specialists in explosives.
The Belarusian authorities have arrested several suspects in connection with the bombing on Monday in Minsk metro, but are still looking for two others, one of them a non-Slavic-looking young man, police said.

"Many people" have been arrested, but none has confessed, said Deputy Attorney General Andrei Shved reporters from the scene of the attack, the agency said Bélap, DPA reported.

Monday's attack in the central Oktiabrskaya subway station killed at least 12 dead and 204 injured. Of the 126 people still in hospital, 22 in serious condition, according to Health Minister Vasiliy Zharko. There are also Russian citizens among the victims.

Russian experts are working with Belarus to search for clues at the station where the detonation occurred. Also come from Israel today, a team of specialists in explosives.

There are conflicting reports about the materials used in the pump, as some officials spoke trotyl and other explosive powder. The device, which exploded when there were about 300 people at the station, had pieces of metal and needles to cause more damage.

Police said the blast was equivalent to the use of five to seven kilos of TNT.

The police distributed composites of two men suspected. One of them shows a twentysomething with a knit cap. Police described it as probably "Caucasian nationality"-an appellation common among Russian forces suggests that it could be Georgian, Azeri, Armenian and Chechen.

Shved Deputy Prosecutor sought the assistance of the population to find the two suspects. The target was to destabilize the country, according Shved.

The government promised the families of the victims compensation of about 6,900 euros (almost $ 10,000).

Prosecutors classified the case as a terrorist attack. So far Belarus was considered a possible target in this regard.

President Alexander Lukashenko ordered the KGB secret service to "turn the country upside down" to find those behind the attack.

Analysts of the political situation in Belarus believe that Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe's last dictator" could use the terrorist attack as a pretext to further increase internal repression. In this context, some opponents even expressed the suspicion that the regime was involved in the attack.

"The attack benefit those who want to impose a state of emergency in the country and away from Western Belarus, as well as those who defame the opposition," said former opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich.

Belarusian opposition many are imprisoned or under arrest domiliciario live. Some of the opposition drigentes fled abroad after the regime stifle the protests against alleged fraud in presidential elections last December.

The bomb was set off by remote control, according to Belarusian Interior Minister Anatoly Kuleshov. The explosive was placed under a seat Oktiabrskaya platform.

Near the site is also the residence of Lukashenko. So far it has managed to identify nine victims.

The President ordered a review of all military stores in the country to check for missing explosives and intensified border controls.

Russia sent its experts FSB secret service to help in investigations, as well as doctors. Tomorrow will be a day of mourning for the victims.

Belarusian state television showed large numbers of people putting flowers and candles at the entrance to the subway station. Some wept. "It's terrible," said one student.

In Brussels, which has a tense relationship with Minsk since the crackdown against opposition leaders denouncing fraud in presidential elections last December, the foreign policy representative, Catherine Ashton, said it "deeply regrets" the attack.

A bomb also exploded Independence Day in Minsk in July 2008, causing 50 casualties. The KGB then arrested four suspected members of the White Legion nationalist illegal organization suspected of terrorism, but the case was never resolved.