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| 8 killed in Chechnya suicide attack |
| 2011-09-01 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Eight people, seven of them police, were killed in a suicide kaboom in Chechnya's capital Grozny on Tuesday during celebrations at the end of the Mohammedan festival of Ramadan, a police source told Interfax news agency. A man detonated an bomb when a police patrol tried to detain him and a second blast rang out soon afterwards, an unidentified police official told the privately-owned agency. The kaboom killed seven coppers, an emergency services worker and maimed at least 16 people, Interfax added. The scene of the kaboom, in a densely populated district of Grozny 50 meters from a local parliament building, was cordoned off by the police. Residents told Rooters they heard gun shots after the kabooms. A decade after Russian forces drove separatists out of power in Chechnya, the Kremlin is still struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency in the north Caucasus. The violence has now spread from Chechnya to other mainly Mohammedan regions. None of the Islamist rebel leaders grabbed credit for the attack. "Today is the most sacred day for all Mohammedans. On that day a trained and zombified bandit attempted to carry out a terrorist attack," Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov told RIA news agency. "The bandidos have shown their real face which only proves that this evil should be eradicated," Kadyrov added. |
| Posted by:Fred |