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Streetside bomb kills two teens in Russia's Dagestan
[Al Ahram] Two teenagers were killed in Russia's volatile Dagestan...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... region Wednesday when they opened a box left on the street that contained an bomb, police said. The kaboom occurred around midday in a busy shopping area of main Dagestani city of Makhachkala, said a spokeswoman of the Dagestan interior ministry. "Two people, teenagers, have died, and two people have been hospitalised," she told AFP. Russian agencies quoted police sources as saying that the victims, aged 15-16, opened a box standing on the pavement outside a store, and apparently set off the bomb, which had two kilogrammes of TNT equivalent. Television footage showed the street with broken windows where the bomb went off surrounded by police cars and camouflaged officers with search dogs. Posted by: Fred 2013-05-02 |
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