Death toll of terrorist act in Dagestan reaches 3 people
May 2, 2010 - 0:0
MAKHACHKALA (Itar-Tass) -- The death toll of a terrorist act in Dagestan reached three people, 16 more people were injured. The Prosecutor General’s Office Investigation Committee (SKP) issued this specified report on Friday. A suicide bomber set off a blast at about 18.00 Moscow time on Thursday at a road police post at the entry in the Kazbek Region. Two policemen and a local resident were killed, 16 more people were injured, including four policemen and a Vietnamese citizen. According to preliminary reports, the power of an explosive device detonated in a Lada-Priora car reached 100 kilograms of TNT. The explosion formed a crater more than two meters in the diameter and one meter deep. Ten cars, which were parked at the road police post, were damaged. A criminal case was instituted under six articles of the Criminal Code for a terrorist act, an attempt on the life of a law enforcer, murder of two and more people, an attempt at murder of two and more people, the illegal circulation of explosives and explosive devices and the illegal making of explosives and explosive devices.