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Credit: Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK | Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:48am EDT MINSK (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered security forces on Wednesday to question local "political actors" -- a reference to the opposition -- over a metro station bomb attack which killed 12 people. Lukashenko also congratulated security officials for netting the suspects in Monday's bombing, which also injured 150 people at the station in the center of the capital Minsk. "Today ... the crime was solved. The (state security service) KGB and police needed just one day ... to carry out a brilliant operation and detain the perpetrators," Lukashenko said as his ex-Soviet republic observed a day of mourning for the victims. "(But) we must look into statements made by political actors ... Maybe these actors from the 'fifth column' will open their cards and point to the one who ordered (the attack)." Lukashenko, an autocratic leader who has led Belarus since 1994, frequently uses the terms "political actors" and "the fifth column" to refer to Belarus' weak, fragmented opposition. Two of the detained suspects -- an electrician and a lathe-operator -- confessed to carrying out the attack and also admitted to two earlier bomb explosions, Lukashenko said. "The detained criminals have confessed not only to carrying out the terrorist act in the Minsk metro. They are also responsible for the previous Independence Day and Vitebsk terrorist acts," Lukashenko said, referring to explosions in 2008 and 2005 respectively. Probes into those blasts, which caused no fatalities but injured many people, had been unsuccessful and they were dismissed as acts of hooliganism. Separately, Interior Minister Anatoly Kuleshov told reporters three suspects had been detained in total, all of them Belarusian citizens. He provided no other details. Officials said CCTV recordings allowed them to identify the sole person who had planted the bomb. The roles of the two others remained unclear. At another briefing, KGB head Vadim Zaytsev said the bomber, who had used a rare type of explosive substance discovered on the Internet, could be mentally ill. EXCHANGE RATE Lukashenko urged officials to stop "panic" from spreading. This included speculation about the rouble exchange rate and other economic issues. The blast has coincided with mounting economic difficulties in Belarus, a country of 10 million people. The central bank last month allowed a de facto 10 percent rouble devaluation on the interbank market and stopped selling foreign currency from its depleted reserves while the government asked Russia for $3 billion in bailout loans. 1 2 Next World Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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