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August 31, 2007
Russia: Devout Muslims Kill 4 Policemen, But Original Target was Children's Festival
A car bomb blast outside a state cultural center killed four policemen in Ingushetia's city of Nazran in Russia's North Caucasus region. The 2 kilo bomb, which went off at 7:15pm on August 31, was inside a Russian Lada car parked near the cultural center where a children's festival was to be held the next day.
The bomb went off when the police came to investigate, reports RIA Novosti, the state news agency. Local officials believe the car bomb was planned to go off on September 1, a children's holiday in Russia that celebrates the return to school.
The main suspects are devout Muslims agitating for the establishment of a Caliphate in the North Caucasus. Ingushetia and neighbouring Chechnya have long been a hotbed of Islamism.
In a separate incident on August 31, men in masks and armed with automatic weapons stopped and beat three transport police officers. The assailants robbed the officers of their weapons, money and mobile phones.
Posted by Jean de la Valette at August 31, 2007 2:36 PM
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