Twin bomb attacks kill 13 in Russia's Dagestan
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May 5, 2012, Saturday
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SUICIDE bombers killed 13 people and wounded 110 in attacks on a police post on the outskirts of the capital of Russia's Dagestan region in the south, local investigators and law enforcement sources said yesterday.
The attacks outside Makhachkala late on Thursday were the deadliest in months, undermining efforts by Russian security forces to contain an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus near Sochi, where Russia will host the Winter Olympics in 2014.
The first suicide bomber detonated a bomb when police stopped a vehicle to check documents, a statement by the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said. The second explosion came when fire brigades and ambulances arrived, causing additional casualties.
A witness at the scene said a fire truck was reduced to charred wreckage. "After the blast, only the wheels of the truck remained whole," the witness told reporters.
Local officials said that in addition to the 13 killed in the blast, 90 had been taken to hospital and 20 were treated at the scene.
"Fragments of human bodies are scattered at the post," Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a local law enforcement official as saying.
Local investigators said they had found the remains of a man and a woman suspected of being the suicide bombers.
Dagestan faces near daily shootings and bombings blamed on Islamist rebels.
The attacks outside Makhachkala late on Thursday were the deadliest in months, undermining efforts by Russian security forces to contain an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus near Sochi, where Russia will host the Winter Olympics in 2014.
The first suicide bomber detonated a bomb when police stopped a vehicle to check documents, a statement by the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said. The second explosion came when fire brigades and ambulances arrived, causing additional casualties.
A witness at the scene said a fire truck was reduced to charred wreckage. "After the blast, only the wheels of the truck remained whole," the witness told reporters.
Local officials said that in addition to the 13 killed in the blast, 90 had been taken to hospital and 20 were treated at the scene.
"Fragments of human bodies are scattered at the post," Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a local law enforcement official as saying.
Local investigators said they had found the remains of a man and a woman suspected of being the suicide bombers.
Dagestan faces near daily shootings and bombings blamed on Islamist rebels.
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