Dozens nabbed after 2 deadly attacks in Russia
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Police detained dozens of people yesterday in sweeps through the Russian city of Volgograd after two deadly attacks in less than 24 hours that raised security fears ahead of the Winter Olympics.
A man wounded when a bomber set off a blast in the city’s railway station on Sunday died overnight, bringing the toll in that attack to 18. Regional governor Sergei Bazhenov said 16 died in a trolleybus bombing on Monday.
There was no indication that any of those held was connected to the attacks.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which raised fears of attacks by Islamist insurgents whose leader has called on militants to prevent Russia hosting the Olympics in February.
Volgograd is a city of about 1 million and a transport hub for an area of southern Russia that includes Chechnya and the other mostly Muslim provinces of the North Caucasus, where the insurgency generates deadly violence almost every day.
President Vladimir Putin ordered increased security nationwide after the attacks.
In Volgograd, about 5,200 police and interior troops were mobilized in “Operation Anti-terror Whirlwind,” Interior Ministry spokesman Andrei Pilipchuk, said on state TV.
He said 87 people had been detained after they resisted police or could not produce proper ID or registration documents, and that some had weapons. State TV showed officers pushing men up against a wall. But there was no sign any were linked to the bombings.
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