Russian security services have detained a woman alleged to be in charge of training female suicide bombers, Associated Press reported. She was seized in the Chechen town of Urus-Martan late Saturday. Another alleged militant, detained in the republic's capital, Grozny, is suspected of blowing up vehicles from 2001-2004.
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Authorities also said Thursday they foiled a major terrorist attack in the republic, discovering a truck with more than a ton of explosives and a cache of poisons. They said two women who had planned to use the truck bomb in a suicide bombing were killed. A third suspected female suicide bomber was shot at a checkpoint in the Chechen capital Grozny late Friday. |