Suicide bombers wreak havoc in Russia again - 12 more perish
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April 1, 2010, Thursday
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SUICIDE bombers yesterday killed at least 12 people, nine of them police officers, in Russia's North Caucasus, just two days after deadly attacks in Moscow that authorities linked to the region.
A car packed with explosives blew up as police gave chase, and a bomber in a police uniform set off a blast in a crowd of officers who rushed to the scene.
The coordinated attacks in Kizlyar, in the Dagestan region close to its border with Chechnya, was the latest outbreak in a surge of violence in the Caucasus a decade after the Kremlin's second of two wars against Chechen separatists.
The Dagestan bombings came 48 hours after Moscow was hit by its bloodiest attack in six years - twin morning rush-hour blasts that killed 39.
Authorities blamed female suicide bombers with connections to the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said a single group could be behind the bombings in both Moscow and Dagestan.
He called the attacks "a crime against Russia" and ordered Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev to bolster the police presence in the North Caucasus.
Some analysts warn that a further crackdown could be counterproductive, fuelling the Islamist insurgency rather than sowing stability.
Severed head
The attack in Kizlyar began when a car packed with explosives blew up after its driver ignored a command to halt and sped toward the center of town with police close behind, Nurgaliyev said.
The vehicle - a black 4WD - exploded with the force of as much as 200 kilograms of TNT, Russian news agencies quoted investigators as saying. Two police officers were killed in the attack.
Twenty minutes later, a suicide bomber pushed his way into a crowd of police who had gathered at the site and detonated his explosives, killing Kizlyar Police Chief Vitaly Vedernikov and several other officers, authorities said.
After the blasts, two gutted cars stood near a deep crater on a debris-strewn street lined by bare trees. A brick schoolhouse had its windows blown out and roof partly ripped off. A man's severed head lay on the street.
Reports said there were no children in the school at the time of the blasts.
Luring police with a blast and then setting off a second explosion is a common tactic of North Caucasus insurgents, who have been attacking law enforcement authorities almost daily.
The explosions killed at least 12 people, including nine police officers and a prosecutor, and 23 others were hospitalized, the investigative committee said.
A car packed with explosives blew up as police gave chase, and a bomber in a police uniform set off a blast in a crowd of officers who rushed to the scene.
The coordinated attacks in Kizlyar, in the Dagestan region close to its border with Chechnya, was the latest outbreak in a surge of violence in the Caucasus a decade after the Kremlin's second of two wars against Chechen separatists.
The Dagestan bombings came 48 hours after Moscow was hit by its bloodiest attack in six years - twin morning rush-hour blasts that killed 39.
Authorities blamed female suicide bombers with connections to the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said a single group could be behind the bombings in both Moscow and Dagestan.
He called the attacks "a crime against Russia" and ordered Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev to bolster the police presence in the North Caucasus.
Some analysts warn that a further crackdown could be counterproductive, fuelling the Islamist insurgency rather than sowing stability.
Severed head
The attack in Kizlyar began when a car packed with explosives blew up after its driver ignored a command to halt and sped toward the center of town with police close behind, Nurgaliyev said.
The vehicle - a black 4WD - exploded with the force of as much as 200 kilograms of TNT, Russian news agencies quoted investigators as saying. Two police officers were killed in the attack.
Twenty minutes later, a suicide bomber pushed his way into a crowd of police who had gathered at the site and detonated his explosives, killing Kizlyar Police Chief Vitaly Vedernikov and several other officers, authorities said.
After the blasts, two gutted cars stood near a deep crater on a debris-strewn street lined by bare trees. A brick schoolhouse had its windows blown out and roof partly ripped off. A man's severed head lay on the street.
Reports said there were no children in the school at the time of the blasts.
Luring police with a blast and then setting off a second explosion is a common tactic of North Caucasus insurgents, who have been attacking law enforcement authorities almost daily.
The explosions killed at least 12 people, including nine police officers and a prosecutor, and 23 others were hospitalized, the investigative committee said.
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