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Russia: Death toll of Russian blast climbs to 17
MOSCOW, (Xinhua): The death of a 79-year-old man overnight has brought the death toll of Thursday's car bomb attack in southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz up to 17, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Friday.
The powerful explosion ripped through the central market in Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia on Thursday morning, injuring more than 100 people. Eleven heavily wounded people have been transferred to Moscow overnight by a Russian Emergencies Ministry plane.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed on Thursday to find and destroy those responsible for the deadly car bomb attack, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin labeled those behind the attack as "soulless" and appealed for a "common duty" to fight them. North Ossetia leader Taimuraz Mamsurov also declared a republic mourning day on Friday with flag-lowering ceremony.
Also on Thursday, Chief of Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov told media that three suspects of the terrorist attack have been detained, one of whom being the owner of the vehicle loaded with the explosive device equivalent to 25-30 kilograms of TNT.
North Ossetia, as well as its neighboring North Caucasus republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya, have seen increasing violence in recent years.
The Vladikavkaz market has been the target of two previous terrorist attacks.
At about midnight Thursday, the prison chief of Dagestan Omar Mugadov was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the republic's capital of Makhachkala. His wife was also injured in the attack on street.
MOSCOW, (Xinhua): The death of a 79-year-old man overnight has brought the death toll of Thursday's car bomb attack in southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz up to 17, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Friday.
The powerful explosion ripped through the central market in Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia on Thursday morning, injuring more than 100 people. Eleven heavily wounded people have been transferred to Moscow overnight by a Russian Emergencies Ministry plane.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed on Thursday to find and destroy those responsible for the deadly car bomb attack, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin labeled those behind the attack as "soulless" and appealed for a "common duty" to fight them. North Ossetia leader Taimuraz Mamsurov also declared a republic mourning day on Friday with flag-lowering ceremony.
Also on Thursday, Chief of Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov told media that three suspects of the terrorist attack have been detained, one of whom being the owner of the vehicle loaded with the explosive device equivalent to 25-30 kilograms of TNT.
North Ossetia, as well as its neighboring North Caucasus republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya, have seen increasing violence in recent years.
The Vladikavkaz market has been the target of two previous terrorist attacks.
At about midnight Thursday, the prison chief of Dagestan Omar Mugadov was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the republic's capital of Makhachkala. His wife was also injured in the attack on street.