RUSSIA: Suicide bomber kills policeman in North Caucasus

Record ID: 357551

  • Title: RUSSIA: Suicide bomber kills policeman in North Caucasus
  • Date: 23rd October 2012
  • Summary: NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (OCTOBER 23, 2012) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS INTO MORNING) POLICEMAN WALKING PAST BLOWN UP CHECK-POINT POLICEMEN, INVESTIGATORS SANDING ON STREET POLICEMEN WALKING PAST CHECK-POINT RUINS BLAST SITE CORDONED UP POLICE LINES POLICEMEN WITH MACHINE GUNS POLICE VAN AT BLAST SITE CHECK-POINT WITH FENCE AND BARBED WIRE INVESTIGATORS NEAR POLICE VAN AT BLAST S
  • Embargoed: 7th November 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Russian Federation
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVADW7CM4VPU4Q9RSM7LYFAL0KVW
  • Story Text: A suicide bomber blew up his car at a police check-point before dawn on Tuesday (October 23) killing a policeman on the border between Russia's restive province of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, officials said.
    Four other policemen were wounded in the explosion, Russian RIA Novosti news agency reported.
    Local police officials said shortly after the blast that three wounded policeman were submitted to the hospital.
    "At 4:25 am Moscow time (0:25 GMT) a car blast occurred at check-point 'Kizlyar', number 105. A car, preliminary identified as a Lada 21099, stopped at the check-point and was blown up during a routine check. As a result one North Ossetian policeman was killed and three were submitted to the hospital," head of North Ossetia road police, Khasan Bekuzarov told Reuters.
    Moscow is struggling to extinguish an Islamist insurgency in the mountainous North Caucasus region sitting at its southern border where violence is almost a daily phenomenon.
    Television footage showed construction elements of the police station - including pieces of blue corrugated metal - scattered around the site surrounded by picturesque mountains on the horizon, their peaks covered in snow.
    The persistent insurgency traces its roots back to two bloody wars Moscow fought with separatists in the adjacent Chechnya between 1994 and 2000 and rights activists say it is also fuelled by poverty, corruption and human rights abuses.
    The insurgents have vowed to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics Russia is due to host in the popular resort of Sochi nearby the region they want to turn into an Islamic state.
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