MOSCOW – Four policemen were killed and five people wounded yesterday in a suicide attack in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, during celebrations of the end of Ramadan, a police source told RIA news agency.
RIA quoted an unidentified police official as saying that a man detonated an explosive device when a police patrol attempted to detain him. A second explosion occurred shortly afterwards.
The source told RIA three of the five wounded were also police.
“The bandits have shown their real face which only proves that this evil should be eradicated,” Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, was quoted by RIA as saying.
The Kremlin is struggling to contain a growing Islamist insurgency in the north Caucasus and the violence has now spread from Chechnya to other mainly Muslim regions. – (Reuters)