A suicide bomber in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region has killed two Russian policemen.
The incident, in the Kazbekovsky district of Dagestan on Thursday night, occurred when an explosives-filled car was pulling into a police checkpoint.
The attacker struck as his Lada car approached the police post.
The explosive blast killed the two police officers and wounded another seven people.
Only weeks ago, twelve people were killed in a double suicide attack in Dagestan, on the heels of coordinated suicide bombings on the Moscow rail system.
39 people were killed in that event, which has been put down to members of a Muslim insurgency in the country's North Caucasus region, which comprises Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya.
The bombings in the Moscow subway cannot provoke anything but horror and revulsion – and also pain, for those who have lost parents, siblings or loved ones. This feeling is one that is familiar to the tens of thousands of Chechens who have had family members taken away from them by the violence of the Russian state, though for what reason is another story. Many theories have been advanced, of which to me the most convincing one is the promotion to the Russian government of people who had no chance of rising to the top by any other means, and not the existence of any moral or other considerations.
Let us consider the features of the strategy of extermination that is practiced in Chechnya. From a legal point of view, can the "conveyor belt ...
A powerful bomb planted near a local power line went off in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala in the early hours of Friday injuring one person and damaging a nearby house. Police are investigating, The Voice of Russia Web site reported.
Two suicide bombers killed 12 people in double strikes in the same region on March 29, two days after attacks in Moscow left 39 dead.
Bombings and other attacks occur almost daily in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia, provinces in Russia's North Caucasus region where government forces are struggling against a separatist Islamist insurgency.
03/31/2010 10:09 RUSSIA Double bombing in Dagestan, nine dead The
victims were mostly policemen, including the head of local security
forces. Targeted the headquarters of the Interior Ministry and the
offices of the secret services. The second bomb triggered by a suicide
bomber. Putin’s hardline. Benedict XVI sent a telegram of condolences
to the victims of the bombings in Moscow. Yesterday the cathedral of
the Holy Saviour was evacuated for fear of a bomb.
Moscow
(AsiaNews / Agencies) – The death toll so far is of nine people killed
by two explosions in Kizlyar, in Dagestan, the republic of Russia
located in the North Caucasus. The Russian agency Interfax reports
that one of the victims - mostly policemen - Vitaly Vedernikov, is head
of local security forces. Meanwhile in Moscow investigations into the
double attack on the capital's Metropolitan are continuing. The Pope
yesterday sent a telegram of condolences to President ...
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