The UN Security Council on Monday strongly condemned the twin Moscow metro suicide bombings that took place in the morning rush hour and left at least 38 people killed and 64 injured.

In a statement read to the press here, the president of the Security Council, Gabon's UN Ambassador Issoze-Ngondet, said, "The members of the Council wish to condemn in the most energetic terms the terrorist attack that was committed in Moscow today."

"They wish to express their sympathy to the victims of those attacks and condolences to those families and government of Russia, " the statement said. "The members of the Council consider terrorism in all its form, in all its manifestation, is one of the major threats to international peace and security and any terrorist act is an unjustifiable crime, whatever motives, the time, the place, by whoever committed."

"The members of the Council wish to express their determination to fight against all forms of terrorism under the charter of the United Nations," the statement added.

Earlier on Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement issued here by his spokesman, "strongly condemns the twin suicide bombings that took place in Moscow's subway this morning, causing the tragic loss of many innocent lives and injuries to many other people."

"The secretary-general is confident that the Russian authorities will bring to justice the perpetrators of this heinous terrorist attack," the statement said. "The secretary-general extends his deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and to the government and people of the Russian Federation," the statement said. "He also wishes the many injured a swift recovery. "

At least 38 people have been killed after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow Metro trains in the morning rush hour, reports said. Twenty-four died in the first blast at 7: 56 a.m. local time (0356 GMT) as a train stood at the central Lubyanka station, beneath the offices of Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian intelligence agency. About 40 minutes later, a second explosion ripped through a train at Park Kultury, leaving another 14 dead.