10 December 2007, 18:25
Four persons suspected of blowing up the bus in Stavropol Territory
Today, the GTRK (State TV and Radio Company) of the Stavropol Territory in the evening news release has promulgated the identikits of the persons suspected of blowing up the bus in the city of Nevinnomyssk. They are four young men, two of them having Slavic, and two - Caucasian appearance.
On December 9, at about 4:30-4:33 p.m. Moscow time, a route "Ikarus" model bus that performed a trip Pyatigorsk-Stavropol arrived to the bus station of the city of Nevinnomyssk. Most of its passengers went out of the bus, and an explosion thundered in the rear section of the bus that killed two passengers.
The personalities of the two lost women have been identified. By different data, in total from 32 to 36 passengers were travelling in the Pyatigorsk-Stavropol bus.
Olga Bakumova, assistant to the Minister of Public Health of the Stavropol Territory, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that 16 passengers were injured by the explosion; five of them are still at hospital.
Currently, two most probable versions of the terror act are considered: blow-up of a woman suicide-bomber and a remote-drive explosion of a bomb placed by one of the passengers behind the rear seat of the bus.
The explosion in Nevinnomyssk has continued a series of similar incidents in transport means of Russia.
On November 22, a Pyatigorsk-Vladikavkaz bus blew up in the border of Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia. Then, 5 persons were killed and 13 more wounded.
On October 31, 8 persons perished as a result of an explosion of the MAZ-103 passenger bus. The number of injured persons varied from 48 to 58 persons.
On October 23, an explosion thundered in a shuttle taxi van in the Kazbekovskiy District of Dagestan; one person was killed, eight more wounded.
On August 14, the "Neva-Express" train No. 166 was blown up, 60 persons suffered.
Author: Elena Kostenko, CK correspondent
