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| Blasts in Grozny kill one, injure 12 |
| 2009-10-12 |
| [Dawn] Two blasts in Chechnya's capital Grozny on Friday killed one policeman and injured up to 12, police officials said early Saturday. 'First one explosive device blasted off, and when people gathered around, another followed,' Colonel Apti Aluvdinov told AFP. One policeman was killed and 12 were rushed to hospital, including two in serious condition, an investigator was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying. There has been mounting violence throughout Russia's largely Muslim Northern Caucasus over the last months as militants wage a low-level insurgency against the Moscow-backed local authorities. Russia this year ended a decade-long 'counter-terror' operation in Chechnya, the scene of two post-Soviet separatist wars, but the unrest has continued, including a string of suicide bombings in Grozny. |
| Posted by:Fred |