Female Suicide Bomber Kills Five Police Officers in Dagestan

March 07, 2012 from Euronews

A female suicide bomber has killed at least five police officers at a traffic checkpoint in the Dagestan region of southern Russia, officials there said on Wednesday. The woman blew herself up late on Tuesday night in the village of Karabudakent, some 40 kilometers from the provincial capital of Makhachkala. A website used by Islamist insurgents from the region claimed that the explosion killed as many as ten policemen, branding them as puppet terrorists." Bomb attacks and shootings are common in Dagestan. Separatist groups want to create an independent Islamic state in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.

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Dagestan

The Republic of Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea. With a population of 2,910,249, Dagestan is ethnically very diverse with several do... Explore this topic

North Caucasus Insurgency

The insurgency in the North Caucasus continues despite the official end of the decade-long Second Chechen War on 15 April 2009. The violence is concentrated mostly in the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria, with only occasional cl... Explore this topic

Suicide attack

A suicide attack is an attack upon a target, in which an attacker intends to kill others and/or cause great damage, knowing that he or she will either certainly or most likely die in the process. Between 1981 and 2006, 1200 suicide attacks occurred around the world, constituti... Explore this topic

Russia

Russia or, also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania an... Explore this topic

Makhachkala

Makhachkala, “Fort Maghach”, is the capital city of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea and is home to the Makhachkala Grand Mosque, one of Russia’s largest. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 572,076, making... Explore this topic

North Caucasus

The North Caucasus is the northern part of the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian Seas and within European Russia. The term is also used as a synonym for the North Caucasus economic region of Russia. Politically, the Northern Caucasus includes the Russian Republics ... Explore this topic

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Police officer

A police officer is a warranted employee of a police force. In the United States, "officer" is the formal name of the lowest police rank. In many other countries, "officer" is a generic term not specifying a particular rank, and the lowest rank is often "constable". In many ot... Explore this topic

Security checkpoint

Civilian checkpoints or Security checkpoints are distinguishable from border or frontier checkpoints in that they are erected and enforced within contiguous areas under military or paramilitary control. Civilian checkpoints have been employed within conflict-ridden areas all o... Explore this topic

Sharia

Sharia is the moral code and religious law of Islam. Sharia deals with many topics addressed by secular law, including crime, politics, and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexual intercourse, hygiene, diet, prayer, and fasting. Though interpretations of sharia v... Explore this topic

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