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Breaking: Terrorist bombing Russian train station kills 18.
2013-12-29
[Aljazeera] Officials say at least 18 dead after female suicide bomber sets of blast in southern Russian city of Volgograd.

A female suicide bomber has set off a blast in a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd killing at least 14 people, news reports and officials said.

Regional Interior Ministry spokeswoman Svetlana Smolyaninova told the ITAR-TASS news agency on Sunday that the blast occurred inside the city's main train station at around 12:45pm (08;45 GMT).
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Volgograd used to be known as Stalingrad.
Posted by: badanov   2013-12-29 16:41  

#5  "Fighters are said to be seeking to impose an Islamist state throughout Russia's North Caucasus."

In the UK news reporting what was absent was the motivation.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-12-29 15:39  

#4  OOooh, the Russians don't play.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-12-29 15:36  

#3  Is Saudi Arabia turning the Chechens loose as pay back for Putin's support of Assad?
Posted by: Flereth Bourbon2999   2013-12-29 15:01  

#2  love that one - thx!
Posted by: Frank G   2013-12-29 11:33  

#1  Count Doku graphic, puhleeeez. The Olympics should be a blast
Posted by: Frank G   2013-12-29 10:25  

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