Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Russian security officials have killed three members of a criminal group behind the March 29 bombings on the Moscow subway, Federal Security Service chief Alexander Bortnikov told the RIA-Novosti news agency Thursday.
The three were members of a criminal group that included people who had accompanied the female suicide bombers to Moscow, and accompanied one of them to the site of the terrorist attack, Bortnikov said at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the news agency reported.
"Unfortunately, we did not manage to detain them alive. They offered fierce armed resistance and were eliminated," he said.
Two suicide bombers struck Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations in central Moscow during morning rush hour, killing 40 people and wounding more than 80.
An estimated 500,000 people were riding trains in the capital at the time of the attacks.
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