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Nalchik Catches 5 Militants a Day
Special search operations to arrest the militants of the October 13 attack on Nalchik are still underway in Kabardino-Balkaria. The police detain several suspects daily. Meanwhile, the city sees mass anti-terrorism rallies, two of them were held yesterday.
More evidence appeared yesterday proving that the October 13 attack and the assault on the State Drug Control Service last December were mounted by the same people. Three Kalashnikovs were found in the city’s district of Dolinsk that held on the barrels the same numbers as those that were seized after the December attack.
Suspected perpetrators of the attack and their accomplices are detained daily. The number of militants is now reaching three dozens, in some reports. The republic’s mass media circulated yesterday a message of the Nalchik investigators who call on the militants not involved in the massacre to come to at their department to lay down the arms. In this case, they will be free from prosecution. Yet, no one has taken that chance yet, according to the information Kommersant obtained.
Arrested militants are said to have confirmed that the terrorist act was masterminded by Anzor Astermirov, a leader of the Kabardino-Balkarian jamaat, but the investigation team does not have the evidence to prove his participation in the attack yet.
As the local forensic medical experts say, there are still some ten bodies of the terrorists left unidentified at the city’s morgue. Relatives of the dead rallied at the republic’s House of Government and the Parliament again. Their protests produced no results this time either. Now they are now going to appeal to the Russian State Duma.
www.kommersant.com
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