Suicide blast rocks Chechnya’s capital
Published: 26 July, 2009, 18:21
Four senior Chechen police officers and a Turkish and a Georgian citizens are among six people killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Chechen republic's capital Grozny.
At least 10 others have been injured, according to the republic's law-enforcement authorities.
The latest reports say the blast occurred just before a public concert, and the police officers who were killed prevented the suicide bomber from getting into the concert hall.
The concert hall in question can hold up to 800 people.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov vowed to press on with an ongoing counter-terrorist operation to wipe out the remaining militants in the region.
He also said that he himself was planning on attending the ill-fated concert.
“I was to go there and had an invitation in my hands, but I was visiting some construction facilities and was late for the beginning of the show,” Ramzan Kadyrov said.
According to the Chechen president, the suicide bombers’ plan was to enter the concert hall and detonate the bomb there, with a lot of women and children present.
The security situation in Russia's Caucasus republics has deteriorated in the past months, with several high-profile attacks conducted by terrorists.
The interior ministries of Chechnya and Ingushetia are holding a joint counter-terrorist operation on the border to wipe out the remaining militants.
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Those brave men the policemen and few civilians that gave their lives up protecting the people at the concert hall should have a statue put up in front of the concert hall in memory of them and remembrance of their heroic actions from these suicide bombers. These bombings that encroach on innocent men. women and precious children and terrorize towns and communities of people that they have never met is such a tragedy.