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| Bombing of govt HQ in Chechnya solved - official |
| 2003-03-10 |
| A senior law officer claimed on Monday that detectives had identified everyone involved in a December 2002 bombing of the government headquarters in Chechnya that claimed 70 lives, and that three of the attackers had been arrested. Seventy people were killed and about 200 people injured by the explosion of about 1 tonne of explosive brought onto the premises of the government headquarters in the Chechen capital Grozny by a truck and jeep driven by suicide bombers. "The investigators have arrested three persons who took direct part in organizing that terrorist act. Two of them have confessed and are giving evidence," Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky told Interfax. "Ouch, put that down! I'll talk!" "We have identified all those who took part in that crime, both the executors and the organizers," he said. He declined to name any of them, including the suicide bombers. Fridinsky said the three people who were arrested had been members of a rebel group whose leader had been killed. "Their role was to directly organize the terrorist act — bring the vehicles to Grozny, store them and load them with explosives," he said. They'll be joining their leader in the near future, unless they are very talkative. |
| Posted by:Steve |