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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 09:49 AM
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36 Killed in Train Blast Near Chechnya
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031205/ap_on_re_eu/russia_explosion&cid=518&ncid=716

Europe - AP

36 Killed in Train Blast Near Chechnya
38 minutes ago

By SERGEI VENYAVSKY, Associated Press Writer

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia - A powerful bomb tore through a commuter train near Chechnya (news - web sites) during morning rush hour Friday, killing 36 people and wounding scores of others in what authorities described as an act of terrorism.

The head of the Federal Security Service blamed the attack on four attackers, including three women, the Interfax news agency reported. The body of a male suicide bomber was found, with grenades still strapped to his legs, FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev told President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites), according to Interfax.

Putin called the attack "an attempt to destabilize the situation in the country on the eve of parliamentary elections," the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Russians vote in a new parliament on Sunday.


The force of the blast — the second fatal attack on the line since September — hurled some passengers from the car and trapped others under a mound of twisted, ragged metal. Bomb explosives experts carefully entered the wreckage to blow up undetonated explosives, setting off three booms, Russian state television reported.

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Surprised no one posted this yet. Dupe?
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 10:38 AM
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1. it's on LBN page 2 - when only 15 reported dead
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=254002

but neither Limbaugh nor michael jackson was on the train so....
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