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| Dagestan police defuse powerful bomb |
| 2010-10-28 |
| (Itar-Tass) - Law-enforcement bodies in Dagestan prevented a large terrorist attack on Wednesday. The information office of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) told Itar-Tass that police found a radio-controlled bomb in Gogol Street, Makhachkala, with a yield of up to six kilograms of TNT. "At 12:20, Moscow time, the police, acting on a tip from vigilant citizens, detected a homemade bomb in a plastic bag," the NAK information office said. "The situation in the area was taken under control on time, as police blocked traffic along Gogol Street until 16:35, Moscow time, although it created traffic jams in central Makhachkala. Part of the tenants of nearby houses had to leave their homes for several hours awaiting the end of the measures to prevent the terrorist attack "Demolition experts from the Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... (FSB) and Dagestan's Interior Ministry defused the bomb. According to preliminary estimates, its yield was 6 kilograms of TNT. The bomb was filled with delicacies of the season, such as bolts, nuts and brick fragments massing up to two kilograms. "The NAK's operations headquarters in Dagestan thereby prevented a high-profile terrorist attack in Makhachkala. "The operations headquarters is grateful to Makhachkala residents for their vigilance and assistance to law-enforcement bodies in counteracting terrorism," NAK underlined. On October 25, a bomb was found near Makhachkala's Dzhuma mosque. It was planted at the intersection of Imam Shamil and Abubakarov Streets. Specialists with sniffer dogs who arrived at the scene confirmed the presence of explosives. FSB engineers used a robot to render it harmless. |
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