- Joined
- Jan 13, 2009
- Messages
- 377
- Points
- 0
Mar 31, 2010
Suicide bomber kills 12
MOSCOW - A SUICIDE bomber disguised as a police officer set off one of two blasts that killed 12 people on Wednesday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, just two days after attacks in Moscow left 39 dead.
Nine police including a local police chief were among the dead in the attack that targeted law enforcement in the North Caucasus, a region wracked by an Islamist insurgency. Monday's attacks in Moscow have been linked to the same region.
Wednesday's first blast was caused by a car that blew up when police tried to stop it during a regular check in the town of Kizlyar in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, a spokesman for the Dagestani interior ministry told AFP.
After 20 minutes, another blast was triggered by a suicide bomber wearing the uniform of police senior lieutenant who approached law enforcement officials working at the scene of the first blast, the spokesman said.
'Of course, it was a pre-planned attack whose goal was to kill policemen,' said the spokesman, who asked not to be named to protect her own security.
The investigative committee of Russian prosecutors said in a statement that 12 people were killed, nine of them police, and 23 were wounded. The dead included the local Kizlyar district police chief, Mr Vitaly Vedernikov, it said.
The new attacks were the latest blow to Russian leaders who pledged after the Moscow metro blasts to hunt down and destroy the organisers of the suicide bombings. -- AFP
Suicide bomber kills 12
MOSCOW - A SUICIDE bomber disguised as a police officer set off one of two blasts that killed 12 people on Wednesday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, just two days after attacks in Moscow left 39 dead.
Nine police including a local police chief were among the dead in the attack that targeted law enforcement in the North Caucasus, a region wracked by an Islamist insurgency. Monday's attacks in Moscow have been linked to the same region.
Wednesday's first blast was caused by a car that blew up when police tried to stop it during a regular check in the town of Kizlyar in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, a spokesman for the Dagestani interior ministry told AFP.
After 20 minutes, another blast was triggered by a suicide bomber wearing the uniform of police senior lieutenant who approached law enforcement officials working at the scene of the first blast, the spokesman said.
'Of course, it was a pre-planned attack whose goal was to kill policemen,' said the spokesman, who asked not to be named to protect her own security.
The investigative committee of Russian prosecutors said in a statement that 12 people were killed, nine of them police, and 23 were wounded. The dead included the local Kizlyar district police chief, Mr Vitaly Vedernikov, it said.
The new attacks were the latest blow to Russian leaders who pledged after the Moscow metro blasts to hunt down and destroy the organisers of the suicide bombings. -- AFP
