23 October 2007, 21:46
F-1 grenade could blow up a shuttle-taxi in Dagestan
Under the preliminary version of the explosion experts, the character of the explosion of the shuttle-taxi in the Kazbek District of Dagestan reminds the action of F-1 grenade ("limonka").
In the opinion of the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, the woman, who is suspected of making the explosion, was probably holding the grenade in her hand in a package, and as a result of a sharp braking down or the van getting into a road hole, the culprit could involuntarily pull out the lock ring.
The passengers of the shuttle-taxi told the workers of law enforcement bodies that the girl suicide-bomber was 18-20 years old; she was dressed in modern clothes and had caused no suspicions.
We remind you that the explosion in the shuttle-taxi on the route from Khasavyurt to the settlement of Dylym happened today at about 12 a.m.
The incident took place on the border of the Khasavyurt and Kazbek Districts of Dagestan stop short several hundred meters from the post of the road sentry service of the Kazbek ROVD (District Militia).
Today, Mark Tolchinskiy, an employee of the press service of the Dagestan MIA, has confirmed among others that the explosion could have been directed against the militiamen on duty at the road sentry post.
Earlier, the MIA of Dagestan had informed that the investigation had one more preliminary version of the event: a possible explosion of a gas cylinder from the gas equipment installed in the "Gazel" shuttle-taxi.
According to the information received by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the MIA of Dagestan, eight persons received fragmental wounds. All of them were hospitalized to the Central Hospital of the Kazbek District, one woman was sent to Makhachkala.
Author: Timur Isayev, CK correspondent