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| Russian police identify Stavropol suicide bombers |
| 2016-04-14 |
| [RFE/RL] Russian police say they have identified three suicide bombers who were killed when they tried to attack a police station in southern Russia. Officials in Russia's Investigative Committee said the three attackers were all residents of the village of Kitayevskoye in the Novoselitsky district of the Stavropol region. Kitayevskoye is close to the police building that came under attack on April 11. The attackers were named as Zaur Akayev, Ramazan Khaibulayev, and Isai Abdulatipov. Initial reports said one of the men had been a suicide bomber, but investigators later said that all three men detonated suicide vests during the attack. An Interior Ministry spokesman said that the authorities had responded to the attack by activating the "Fortress Plan," meaning police had been put on a higher state of military readiness. |
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