Posted on 04/04/2010 10:27:11 PM PDT by rdl6989
A second blast has been reported at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia.
At least one policeman was killed in the first explosion near the police headquarters in a town in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia.
"According to preliminary information a suicide bomber set off an explosion outside the town's police station," said a spokesman for the local interior ministry.
"At least one policeman was killed and others were injured.
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Katie Cassidy, Sky News Online
“A second blast has been reported at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Ingushetia.”
SNIPPET: “At least two officer was killed in the first explosion outside a police headquarters in Karabulak, about 20km from the regional capital Magas.
Reports from the regional interior ministry indicated the bomber was trying to enter the station’s grounds.
“As a result of the blast, the suicide bomber died at the scene and three police officers were taken to hospital, where two of them died,” Russia’s investigative committee said in a statement.
Local media said the second bomb went off in a car about 50 minutes later outside the same police station.”
Suicide bombs hit Russian province of Ingushetia
A suicide bomber has blown himself up close to a police station in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region, killing two policemen and wounding two more.
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Published: 7:06AM BST 05 Apr 2010
The terrorists, Islamist radicals seeking to establish an Islamist caliphate in southern Russia, detonated a second bomb at the same location forty minutes later. Nobody appears to have been killed or wounded in the second blast.
The attacks come as the Islamists boast they have launched a fresh terror campaign after two suicide attacks last week left more than fifty Russians dead in the most serious escalation in an undeclared guerrilla war since 2004.
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I wonder how much support the Georgians are giving these bombers.
Georgia would be totally in the right to do this, except for the Moscow bombing which went way too far.
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