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Woman blows herself up at Chechen security base
A woman blew herself up at a security base in the centre of rebel Chechnya on Sunday in the latest of a string of suicide attacks by Chechen women fighters against Russian rule in the Muslim region. The woman approached guards at the base in Tsatsan-Yurt, 30 km south-east of the regional capital Grozny, which accommodates a special security unit attached to the pro-Moscow head of the Chechen regional administration, Akhmad Kadyrov. ''There was a military review of troops going on when the woman tried to enter the building,'' Shamsail Saraliyev, a public relations adviser to Kadyrov, told NTV television. ''The guards were suspicious of her. They asked her to stop and at that moment she blew herself up,'' he said. The suicide bomber was killed and a woman passerby was slightly hurt, a spokesman for Kadyrov's press service said. There were no details of the attacker's identity, although witnesses said she was around 20 years old. This is at least the fifth such attack, or attempted attack, since mid-May by Chechen women suicide bombers trying to put pressure on Moscow to pull its troops from the region.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-07-27 |
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