Russia - Suicide Bomb attack in Volgograd 29/12

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An explosion at a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd has killed at least 18 people, reports say.

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Highlights

At least 16 people were killed
in a blast at a railway station in the city of Volgograd, southern Russia.
A suicide bomber is suspected to have carried out the attack
At least 44 people were injured, 38 of whom were hospitalized, including a nine-year-old girl.
The blast took place at 12.45 local time
inside the building of the railway.
It is "thought to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber,"
the bomber as a Dagestani woman named Oksana Aslanova
she married to two different Islamists killed in battles with federal forces.

she may have been assisted in her attack by a man they identified only by the last name of Pavlov.
Female suicide bombers are often referred to in Russia as "black widows" -- women who seek to avenge the deaths of their family members in the fighting by targeting Russian civilians.

-anti-terrorism committee's statement.

 

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