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| 1 dead, 13 hurt in bomb attack on N. Caucasus prosecutor |
| 2006-08-10 |
| One man died and 13 people were injured after a series of blasts ripped through a home of a local prosecutor in Nazran, Ingushetia, in the early hours of Thursday morning, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports. The prosecutor himself was not hurt in the attack, but his brother Adam was killed, the republican Interior Ministry said. “According to preliminary information, the criminals planted two explosive devices by the house where the prosecutor of Nazran District, Gerikhan Khazbiyev, lives,” the source in the ministry told the agency. Russia TV said in a morning news bulletin that as many as 13 people were injured in the blast. Investigation into the attack has been launched. The blasts had apparently been triggered by two hand-made explosive devices planted near the house, a Rossia TV correspondent said. Investigators believe that the terrorists threw four more hand grenades across the fence into the interior yard. The victims are mainly Khazbiyev’s neighbors. After the first explosion, people went out into the street to see what was happening, and at that moment, witnesses say, another bomb went off. Interior Ministry officers and investigators from the prosecutor’s office are working at the scene. |
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