A new upsurge of terrorist violence shakes Russia. Particularly affected is the city of Volgograd, a few weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi which will begin on February 7. In less than 24 hours, 32 dead and more than fifty injured in a double attack. The budget of the new attack with a bomb on a trolley, remains uncertain. According to the Ministry of Health, 14 people were killed in the explosion and thirty were wounded. The Investigative Committee has cited the same data, but at the same time, the regional administration has talked about in previous communications of 12-15 killed. It is feared that the budget is intended, however, to rise, given that many of the wounded are in serious condition and a baby of six months is likely to die. According to the latest information, board of public transport were also some relatives of the victims of the massacre pounced before yesterday morning at the station, in the town of southern Russia. Almost a curse that has hit the kin of the injured, who were returning home from the hospital where their loved ones were hospitalized after the attack bombers.
Investigators: “Such bombs of the two attacks” – The suicide bombing was “identical elements” with that of the railway station. The spokesman said the investigator Vladimir Markin. “As the station, the bomb was filled with shrapnel. Perhaps the two bombs were manufactured in the same place,” he added. Also according to reports from Maskin, would have been a man to blow himself up on the bus. The suicide bomber acted with 4 kg of TNT explosive. identified the bomber station – Investigators have also released the name of the aggressor. His name was Pavel Pechonkin and was born in Volzhsk, in the republic of Mari, in the center of Russia. In the spring of 2012 he had joined the militants in Dagestan after he converted to Islam and changed its name to Ansar ar-Rusi. It had previously been identified as Oksana Aslanova, the woman kamikaze suicide attack at the station who made at least 17 deaths. Police sources quoted by Russian media had reported that the woman did not act alone, but was accompanied by a man named Pavlov who was carrying a backpack on his shoulders. Strengthening of security across Russia – Vladimir Putin has ordered increased security across Russia. This was announced by the Counter-Terrorism Committee after the green light to further control measures in the capital Moscow. The operations for the removal of Red Square were not simple. On the eve of the New Year the place attracts large crowds. Close to GUM department store there is a Christmas market with rides for children, in addition to the traditional ice rink. According to the head of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov additional security measures at the Olympic Games in Sochi in connection with the terrorist attacks in Volgograd will not be taken. “Given what has been done, it is enough,” said Zhukov. In the city patrols of Cossacks – Meanwhile in Volgograd, went into action even the Cossacks. The “Knights of the Czar” will be mobilized and in charge of patrols in the city. Former military community went down in history for having strenuously defended the tsar against the Bolsheviks, the Cossacks are increasingly part of everyday life, but also the founding ideology of Russia under President Putin as under Nicholas I, lives many vocations: Orthodoxy , autocracy and nationalism. And of course the Islamic terrorism that can not be the first enemy. Twenty-four hours of hell – Sunday, December 29th 18 people have died in an explosion at the railway station of the same Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, in the south of the country. Ben 38 wounded. Among the victims including children and the police officer Dmitry Makovkin, who had tried to block the suicide bomber. The inquiry commission has confirmed that the suicide bomber responsible for the tragedy, has died. The mystery of his identity has continued into the night. Initially, it was in fact thinking of a Caucasian woman, whose remains were found near the site of the blast, but on the basis of subsequent information, the head of the attack is called “Pavlov”, of Slavic appearance, and would bring the explosive station in a backpack. The circumstances have been clarified thanks to CCTV: the images are over on Youtube. The site was found unexploded grenade and a pistol, allegedly belonged to the criminal. Ten pounds of TNT – The explosion at the central station of Volgograd occurred at 9.45 am on Sunday, Italian time. At that time there were many people crowding the waiting room after the cancellation of three train passengers were more than normal, even compared to other days before holidays. As in any other public place in Russia, the metal detector is a step abbligato. And it was during the inspection that the terrorist attack was put in place. According to the commission of inquiry, the power of the bomb was not more than 10 kilograms of TNT. The “signs” last October – Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, is a city of about one million inhabitants. The capital of the region of the same name, is located in European Russia along the banks of the Volga River. A 675 km from Sochi, where nearly a month between the Winter Games will be held and where it started the announced strategy of tension by terrorists Caucasians led by Doku Umarov, a sworn enemy of Putin and leader of the militants who aspire to an Emirate Caucasus in Russia. Did he urge his fighters in July to use “maximum force” to sabotage the Olympic Games in Sochi. Already in October, Volgograd Dagestani girl blew herself up on a bus bound for Moscow.December 30, 2013
Editors Tiscali
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