Has anyone posted this? Another female suicide bomber.
http://english.people.com.cn/200510/10/eng20051010_213579.html
Major explosion occurs in downtown Dushanbe
A major explosion occurred in downtown Dushanbe at 7:05 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday. The Tajik police said that a female suicide bomber set off the explosion. The woman died on her way to hospital. She was in coma when she died, a source in the Tajik Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass.
The bomb has been identified as a grenade. Demolition experts found the grenade detonator on the incident scene.
According to the updated information, a man got a shrapnel leg wound in the explosion.
Dushanbe Prosecutor Khabibullo Vakhidor refused to add details. Eyewitnesses are being interrogated, and the woman is being identified.
A task force of the Tajik Interior Ministry and Security Ministry is working on the explosion scene. The area is cordoned. That was the third explosion in nearly one and the same area of Dushanbe in 2005.
Source: Agencies
Oops. Posted too soon. Looks like it wasn't a suicide bombing.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10677704.htm
Jilted lover caused Tajik "suicide blast"--police
10 Oct 2005 12:40:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
DUSHANBE, Oct 10 (Reuters) - An explosion that killed a woman outside a government building in Tajikistan on Sunday, first reported as a suicide bombing, was caused by a grenade thrown by her jilted lover after a row, police said on Monday.
Police said at first the blast outside the Central Asian state's Emergencies Ministry appeared to be the work of a female suicide bomber who killed only herself. However, a man had now been arrested and charged with murder, they said.
"In line with our preliminary investigation, the grenade blast was prompted by a fit of jealousy during a tiff between former lovers," said police spokesman Golib Sultonov.
"The man, the woman's former lover, threw a grenade at her. They dated once, but then she ditched him. He was jealous that she was now in love with another man."
The 25-year-old woman was the daughter of an Interior Ministry special operations officer, he said.
Her attacker was under arrest charged with murder and illegal possession of arms. A passer-by was slightly wounded by the blast.
Tajikistan has been flooded with weapons since a 1992-97 civil war that caused more than 100,000 deaths. Sunday's explosion in the government district occurred just days before a planned visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The Emergencies Ministry, which handles civil emergencies, was the scene of two mysterious bomb blasts earlier this year which killed one man and slightly wounded at least seven others.
Police said at least one of those blasts may have been "terrorist" while Western diplomats in Dushanbe have said they believed the two blasts were most likely to be linked to a business dispute or political vendetta.