A powerful explosion occurred at the entrance to the central market of the town of Buro (Vladikavkaz) in Ghalghaycho province of the Caucasus Emirate.
Occupation sources initially reported 6 killed and about 50 injured people. Later it was stated that 8 people were killed.
According to the latest figures 22 people were killed and more than 100 were injured. RIA-News reported 15 people were killed. Ekho Moskvy radio station reported 14 killed and 70 wounded people.
According to the AP with reference to the ESM, "at least 17 people were killed and nearly 140 were wounded, with about half a dozen hospitalized in very serious condition".
It was a car bomb explosion, with a car parked outside the market. The power of the bomb was up to 40 kg. TNT. The explosion rocked Zanayeva street at around 11:30 am local time on Thursday. The blast was so powerful that glasses shattered in nearby buildings.
"The threat of a second explosion is not ruled out", said a spokesman for the occupation MIA.
Meanwhile, reports say that the police, after receiving instructions from their superiors to be "more vigilant", zealously rushed to search for bombs in all markets in Russia, primarily in Moscow:
"Plainclothes police are working in the markets in Moscow. A set of preventive measures is carried out in close cooperation with other law enforcement agencies. The head of the Metropolitan Police instructed heads of departments of Moscow police to conduct briefings among staff to increase vigilance and to strengthen the work".
Meanwhile, one of the occupation local ringleaders Teimuraz Mamsurov said that the explosion in the Buro was carried out by a martyr, Russian sources reported. According to him it was a "suicide bomber".
The occupiers have declared that they found "an Ingush trace" in the bombing in Buro.
The RIA News reported that Russian invaders identified a man who was in the exploded car.
It is alleged that the bomb was planted in a Volga car with Ingush plate numbers.
Invaders also stated that a man named Archiyev was the car driver. 20 minutes before the explosion, the car had allegedly crossed the so-called border between "North Ossetia" and "Ingushetia".
Occupation sources report that some "suspects" were detained, including the owner of the exploded car. A man named Dobrev was detained in Ingushetia, he said he sold his car to a unknown person on the eve.
However, the occupiers are already threatening to accuse Dobriyev of the involvement in the bombing.
"Three suspects" have allegedly been arrested on "hot spot", and "operational measures are allegedly being carried out", said at a meeting in Buro (Vladikavkaz) on Thursday night the ringleader of Russian FSB terrorist gang Aleksander Bortnikov.
However, to all appearances, the KGB chieftain has nothing to say, so he sparingly told reporters -
"At present, I will confine myself to this information because the investigation is going on...".
Occupation sources recalled that a martyr had blown up a police checkpoint in Prigorodny district on 17 August. According to Russian underestimated figures, only 3 occupiers were killed and injured there.
The AP in its dispatch from Rostov-on-Don recalled that the market in Buro has been also bombed back in 1999, killing 55 people.
Another bombing in 2001 killed 6 people. In 2004, 11 people died when a minibus that stopped near the market was bombed.
Russian sources, meanwhile, report that an unknown person allegedly threatened to blow up one of the schools in Buro (AKA Vladikavkaz).
"The ministry of education was phoned by a unknown person who said that an explosion is going to occur in one of the schools in Vladikavkaz", puppet police said.
Currently, all schools in the city are evacuated, Ekho Moskvy reports.
Meanwhile, cell phone communications were cut off in Buro. Many residents of the city can not get in touch with their relatives.
According to Russian media outlets, cell phones are jammed intentionally to prevent new acts of sabotage, in particular, to prevent activation of explosive devices with the cell phones.
The Western press considers the bombing in Buro as another blow to Russian invaders in the Caucasus.
Moscow correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, Richard Boudreaux, says in this regard:
"The bombing in the capital of majority-Christian territory was a blow to the Kremlin, which is trying to tame the neighboring, majority-Muslim North Caucasus - Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan. The attack was the deadliest in the North Caucasus after a suicide bomber in a car attacked a police station in Nazran, the capital of Ingushetia, in August last year. 20 people were killed in that attack".
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
Publication time: 9 September 2010, 12:47
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