RUSSIA: Mourners bury eleven victims of the suicide bomb blast in Vlaikavkaz

Record ID: 755855

  • Title: RUSSIA: Mourners bury eleven victims of the suicide bomb blast in Vlaikavkaz
  • Date: 12th September 2010
  • Summary: VLADIKAVKAZ, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER, 11, 2010) (REUTERS) PEOPLE CROWDING IN COURTYARD AT APARTMENT HOUSE DURING MOURNING CEREMONY PEOPLE STANDING NEAR COFFIN WITH MAN'S PICTURE ON IT/ WOMEN CRYING AT COFFIN PLAQUE ON CROSS WITH NAME READING "CHIBIROV NODAR GEORGIEVICH. 28.01.1972 - 9.09.2010" MAN'S PICTURE ON COFFIN/ WOMEN CRYING YOUNG WOMAN WITH BLACK RIBBON ON HEAD CRYING PEOPLE PASSING BY COFFIN, EXPRESSING THEIR CONDOLENCES TO RELATIVES WOMAN IN BLACK HOLDING MAN'S PHOTOGRAPH, SHOUTING AND CRYING WIDE OF STREET WITH PEOPLE WAITING AT CARS FOR FUNERAL PROCESSION WOMEN STANDING NEXT TO COFFIN COVERED WITH RED CARNATIONS MEN BOWING HEADS
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2010 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA11ETFRYM0AXB459EJ9TSLQODT
  • Story Text: Funerals for eleven people killed in a suicide bomb blast were held in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia on Saturday (September 11).
    Hundreds of people gathered to pay tribute to the victims.
    Dressed in black mourners walked to the city cemetery where large wreaths were laid next to the graves.
    One Vladikavkaz resident, Zoya Bestayeva was upset no government officials had attended the funerals.
    "It's so terrible, our children were buried and there were no officials from our government here. Why did nobody from the government come to see what was going on here?" she said.
    The death toll from a suicide bomb in Russia's restive North Caucasus rose to 18 on Friday (September 10) and doctors fought for the lives of several critically wounded victims.
    Some of those wounded in the blast were transported to a Moscow hospital.
    More than 100 people remained hospitalized, including 11 who were flown to Moscow. Five of those were in critical condition, spokesman of Emergencies Ministry medical unit said on state-run Rossiya-24 television.
    People lit candles and prayed for the blast victims at church on Friday night, as the stricken province observed a day of mourning.
    Authorities said the attacker detonated a powerful bomb packed with bolts and other projectiles in a car outside the entrance to the central market in the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz.
    The blast was a new blow to the Kremlin, which is struggling to contain a growing Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus, a strip of impoverished, ethnically mixed provinces along Russia's southern border.
    Mostly Orthodox Christian North Ossetia is sandwiched among the predominantly Muslim regions of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria, which are plagued by daily violence linked to the insurgency.
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