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| 'Suicide bomber' targets Kazakh police |
| 2011-05-19 |
| [Al Jazeera] A suspected jacket wallah has maimed several people near a security service building in the northern Kazakh city of Aktobe, Interfax news agency reported, citing unidentified security sources. Nobody apart from the suspected bomber was killed in the attack, Interfax reported on Tuesday. "A suicide bomber detonated an unknown device in front of the regional security services building. As a result of the kaboom, there are casualties," a source within the security services told Interfax. A local photographer told the Rooters news agency by telephone from Aktobe, located near the Russian border, that the suicide bomber had blown himself up at the regional headquarters of the National Security Committee, Kazakhstan's domestic security police. Search for accomplices He said reinforced police units had cordoned off a block of the city of 277,000 inhabitants. Media reports said the security police were searching for alleged accomplices. Security officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Kazakhstan's tightly-controlled state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? has yet to broadcast any reports on the event. The prosecutor's office is to give a briefing later in the afternoon on the incident. Oil-rich, mainly Mohammedan Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest economy, has to date avoided outbreaks of violence that have occurred in ex-Soviet neighbours Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Such an attack is a rare event in Kazakhstan, the most stable state in Central Asia which has been run since even before the fall of the Soviet Union by president Nursultan Nazarbayev. ...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way around... |
| Posted by:Fred |