TERROR

Suicide Bomber Kills 20 in Russia

Rebellion against police operations.

A suicide bomber killed 20 people and injured more than 138 in Nazran, Russia on Monday. The bomber ran his truck, which was packed with explosives, through the gate of a busy police station in Ingushetia, a mostly Muslim region in Southern Russia. When the bomb detonated, it mangled cars, stripped balconies off of buildings, and left the police station in piles of rubble. The blast is the latest in a string of attacks on police in Ingushetia. According to Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, the cause was rebellion against the “The intensified police operations, including the successful actions on the Ingush-Chechen administrative border.”