FILE/DAGESTAN: Russia's restive Dagestan is most violent of North Caucasus provinces - file of car bombs and other deadly attacks in Russia's restive Dagestan region

Record ID: 353841

  • Title: FILE/DAGESTAN: Russia's restive Dagestan is most violent of North Caucasus provinces - file of car bombs and other deadly attacks in Russia's restive Dagestan region
  • Date: 19th April 2013
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF DEBRIS OF VEHICLES DESTROYED BY BLAST MAN WALKING PAST CAR WITH SHATTERED WINDOWS DEBRIS OF VEHICLES DESTROYED BY BLAST WOMAN TALKING ON MOBILE PHONE AMID DEBRIS LYING ON GROUND CARS DESTROYED BY BLAST EMERGENCY FORCES PULLING METAL OFF CAR DESTROYED BY BLAST VARIOUS OF PIECES OF METAL AND DEBRIS LYING ON GROUND CARS WITH SHATTERED WINDOWS MAKHACHKALA, RUSSI
  • Embargoed: 4th May 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Russian Federation
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA7RM40UATAYKTJIODHMQT83LN6
  • Story Text: A U.S. national security officer on Friday (April 19) identified two Boston bombing suspects as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who once lived in the Russian region of Dagestan, close to Chechnya.
    Russia is battling an Islamist insurgency in Dagestan and other North Caucasus provinces that is rooted in two post-Soviet wars in Chechnya, which borders Dagestan.
    Dagestan is now the most violent of the North Caucasus provinces. Bombings, attacks on officials and gun battles are a near daily occurrence, may of them blamed on militants who say they want to carve out an Islamic state.
    In September 2011 a car bomb which exploded in Dagestan killed one policeman and seven civilians in the area. The bombs came one week after three car bombs killed six people and gunmen killed four more in the region wedged between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea.
    A year before Russia's March 2012 presidential election Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the insurgency the country's main security threat.
    In May of 2012 suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 110 in attacks on a police post on the outskirts of the capital of Russia's Dagestan region.
    In August of 2012 a woman suicide bomber killed an influential Islamic cleric and six of his followers in the Dagestan region. The violence followed an attack from just 10 days earlier in which masked gunmen opened fire in a mosque in the province, killing one person and injuring several others, and a suicide bombing the following day that killed seven police in Ingushetia, another province in the turbulent North Caucasus.
    A profile page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte.ru under the name Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says he attended School No. 1 in Dagestan's regional centre of Makhachkala, as well as Cambridge Ringe & Latin School in Boston.
    Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing during a shootout and were engaged in a house-to-house search for a second man on Friday in the Boston suburb of Watertown after a bloody night of shooting and explosions in the city's streets.
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