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Russian specialists have advertised the capture of two Moscow metro laborers for wellbeing breaks after a train wrecked, slaughtering 21 individuals.

The track director and his collaborator are associated with utilizing lacking wiring throughout chips away at the line in May, the Investigative Committee said.

They have been addressed and charges are required to be brought soon, it said in an announcement (in Russian).

A force surge is said to have created the accident, which harmed 162 individuals.

Wednesday has been authoritatively proclaimed a day of grieving in Moscow.

The two men captured, named as track director Valery Bashkatov and collaborator manager Yury Gordov, are associated with neglecting to appropriately screen work completed on a track switch system in an underground shaft.

"The switch system was settled with standard 3-mm wire, which snapped," the Investigative Committee said.

The Moscow metro, one of the world's busiest, is a key transport supply route for the city, transporting more than nine million individuals on weekdays beneath its movement stoped up roads.

Deepest station

Salvage specialists at the accident site in the Moscow metro, 15 July Rescue laborers at the accident site in the Moscow metro on Tuesday

A salvage specialist rests adjacent to a guide of the metro in Moscow, 15 July A salvage laborer resting close to a guide of the metro in Moscow

Travelers harmed in Moscow metro wrecking (15 July) Scores of individuals were dealt with at the scene for their wounds

The train wrecked between Slaviansky Boulevard and Park Pobedy (Victory Park) stations in the west of the city.

More than 1,100 individuals were cleared.

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Traveler feature demonstrates within the metro framework after the wrecking - Oleg Boldyrev reports from Moscow

The pressed passenger train was going from the north-west of Moscow to the downtown area at the time of the accident.

The BBC's Artyom Liss, in Moscow, says the shaft where accident happened was constructed about 10 years back.

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Traveler: 'I was inside a carriage. At that point a sudden blow, I tumbled down'.

Faultfinders blame the powers for using excessively on enlarging the metro framework, and insufficient on support, our reporter says.

Park Pobedy is the deepest metro station in Moscow, 84m (275ft) underground, which made the salvage operation especially hard.

No outsiders were among the harmed, the Interfax news org said.

Aggressor assaults on Russia's lines and transport systems have executed many individuals previously, yet the crises service said there was no suspicion of such a reason for this situation.

Site of train crash The wrecking happened in the west of the city