Details beginning to come out behind this horrific terrorist attack in Russia.  Volgograd is a city of around 1 million people, about 690 km  northeast of Sochi and close to Russia’s volatile region of North  Caucasus. The city saw a terrorist attack just in October, when a   suicide  bomber blew herself up in a bus, killing six people and  injuring more than 30 others.


•The power of the explosion at Volgograd’s station was equivalent  to at least 10 kg TNT, according to Vladimir Markin [Health Ministry].  The explosive device  was stuffed with pieces of scrap metal. The Committee said that  an undetonated F-1 grenade was also found at the scene.
•The female was initially identified as Oksana Aslanova, a close  friend of Naida Asiyalova – also known as ‘Amaturahman’ – who was  behind the October Volgograd attack. Aslanova is said to have  been married twice to two militants, both eliminated earlier.
A few hours later, more evidence emerged suggesting that a man  could have also been involved in the attack. The version, which  was also picked up by investigators, came after a male finger  with a pin from a grenade was found at the scene.
Given the new information, the possibility that the attack could  have been carried out by both a man and a woman is not ruled out,  Markin said.


[AFP Report]  RUSSIA – At least 18 people were killed and 40 others wounded when an explosion tore through a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Sunday, in an attack blamed on a female suicide bomber, Russian media and officials said.
Regional interior ministry spokeswoman Svetlana Smolyaninova told the ITAR-TASS news agency that the blast occurred inside the train station at around 12:45 pm (0845 GMT).

The news agency said the explosion took place near the metal detectors stationed at the entrance to the city’s main train station.
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement shortly after that a female suicide bomber had carried out the attack.
The explosion is the deadliest such blast to take place in Russia outside the volatile North Caucasus region in nearly three years.


Security fears for Sochi
Coming just two months after another suicide bomber struck in the same Russian city, it will bolster fears of attacks by Islamist militants as Russia prepares to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. (report)

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