A bomb planted on the roadside, went off at about 8.30 am, Moscow time, when Prosecutor of Buinaksk Bitar Bitarov was traveling past the place on a car.
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Prosecutor Killed in Dagestan in Terrorists' Ambush
Prosecutor of Buinaksk was killed and Dagestan’s Interior Ministry was injured in a terrorist attack in Dagestan yesterday. The total of 3 people died and 6 were injured in two explosions and machine-gun fire ambush.
A bomb planted on the roadside, went off at about 8.30 am, Moscow time, when Prosecutor of Buinaksk Bitar Bitarov was traveling past the place on a car. Bitarov was rushed to hospital in grave condition and died a few hours later.
An hour later, the motorcade of Dagestan’s Interior Minister Adilgerey Magomedtagirov was ambushed on a road between the regional capital of Makhachkala and Buinaksk. The minister was on the way to Buinaksk to oversee the investigation of the attempt on the prosecutor. The bomb blew up near the road but the minister’s car went by. Adilgerey Magomedtagirov and policemen in a car that followed his were shell-shocked. The third car of the motorcade crushed into the shell-hole. Unknown criminals fired from the nearby forest, after which the third bomb set off. 3 security men of the minister and 3 passers-by were wounded in the accident. 2 policemen died of wounds.
An investigation group which was going to Buinaksk and special forces who were on their way to catch the criminals got stuck in a big traffic jam that appeared after the road was crushed by the explosion of a bomb planted in a drainage pipe. Only one hour later did the police manage to reach the scene on helicopters and armored troop-carriers.
The crime has been carefully planned as militants perfectly knew the route of the Buinaksk prosecutor and anticipated the interior minister to arrive since Gen. Magomedtagirov always visits scenes of high-profile crimes.
This is the first major terrorist attack since Russian authorities promised amnesty for all militant who would come to surrender.
Yulia Rybina, Makhachkala; Nikolay Sergeev
All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 09, 2006
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