RUSSIA: RUSSIAN POLICE DETONATE BOMB OUTSIDE MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE.

Record ID: 358406

  • Title: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN POLICE DETONATE BOMB OUTSIDE MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE.
  • Date: 25th July 1999
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JULY 25, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. GV/MV: SYNAGOGUE AREA SEALED OFF WITH POLICE AND SYNAGOGUE MEMBERS LOOKING ON (3 SHOTS) 0.17 2. GV: ROBOT SEARCHING AREA/ POLICEMAN (3 SHOTS) 0.35 3. GV/TILT: POLICE CORDONING OFF AREA 0.45 4. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RABBI SAYING "We found a suspicious-looking object in the synagogue so we b
  • Embargoed: 9th August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVABK3JXCHMP4VK0V676MXC4X7YP
  • Story Text: Russian police have detonated a bomb found outside a
    central Moscow synagogue.There were no injuries or deaths.

    Members of Moscow's central Lubavitch Synagogue said
    they discovered a suspicious-looking object in their house of
    worship as they gathered on Sunday afternoon (July 25).

    Police evacuated the area and closed off approaching
    streets to the Lubavitch Synagogue as a security precaution
    before using a robot to inspect the suspect package.

    The object exploded as the police robot was examining it.

    Police said that they had initiated the explosion as a
    security precaution.

    Nobody was killed or injured.

    Moscow has seen a series of anti-Semitic acts in recent
    months, including the bombing of another Lubavitch synagogue
    in May.

    Earlier this month the director of the Jewish cultural
    Centre at Moscow's Choral Synagogue was wounded in a knife
    attack at the synagogue complex.
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