18 November 2013, 13:30
Number of casualties of Volgograd terror act is now eight
As reported by the Chief Department for the Volgograd Region of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), a woman, wounded in the terror act in Volgograd on October 21, has died in the Vishnevsky Surgery Institute in Moscow. Thus, the death toll of the bus explosion has now eight persons. Currently, four more victims are still in hospitals.
Let us remind you that according to investigators, the bomb in the Volgograd bus was triggered by Naida Asiyalova, a native of Dagestan. As a result, seven people were killed on the spot, and 55 others were wounded.
Let us note here that at night on November 16 in the Dagestani village of Semender, power agents blocked a private house. During the storming, persons, who were in the house, were killed. According to law enforcers, one of them was Dmitry Sokolov, Asiyalova's common-law husband, who had organized the above bus explosion. According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), Sokolov confessed, in the negotiations, held with participation of his mother, of his involvement in the terror act in Volgograd.
Author: Tatyana Filimonova Source: CK correspondent