RUSSIA: Suicide bomber kills at least four in Russia's Chechnya.

Record ID: 356586

  • Title: RUSSIA: Suicide bomber kills at least four in Russia's Chechnya.
  • Date: 26th August 2009
  • Summary: OFFICIALS AT SITE OF BLAST
  • Embargoed: 10th September 2009 13:00
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  • Topics: Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3RQRK2X5TRD019Y1GVBQ74Q21
  • Story Text: Suicide bomber kills at least four in Russia's Chechnya, one day after Putin made a visit to the restive region . A suicide bomber killed four policemen and injured one in Russia's Chechnya region on Tuesday (August 25). The attack took place in a town around 20 km (12 miles) from the regional capital Grozny. Three police men were killed instantly, the fourth one died later of his injuries.
    Russia's Interfax news agency reported two passers-by also died. The ministry said it was unaware of the two civilian deaths reported by the news agency.
    Chechnya's interior ministrer said investigators working at the site of the blast had identified the suicide bomber.
    "At the village Mesker Yurt, next to a car wash the suicide bomber blew himself up with home-made explosives. He is identified as we Mogomed Shakhidov and he was detained in 2004, but after he was released he resorted back to terrorist activity, also three policemen from Argun were killed immediately and one was injured," Chechnya's interior minister Ruslan Alkhanov said.
    The number of attacks on officials and security forces has soared in Chechnya in recent months. Late last week two suicide bombers on bicycles killed four policemen in Grozny.
    State television showed camouflage-clad men huddling around stray articles of clothing in a pool of blood under bright sunshine where Tuesday's attack had taken place.
    Unofficial Islamist rebel website www.kavkazcenter.com praised the blast, calling the bomber a "shakhid", or "martyr".
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew into Chechnya on Monday to show support for its Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has been accused by rights groups of abuses in the mainly Muslim region which is racked by violence.
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