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Bomber hits capital of Russia’s Chechnya

01 July 2010 03:05 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. A suicide bomb blast ripped though the center of the capital of Russia’s Chechnya region on Wednesday and was believed to have caused at least one death, Itar-Tass reported, APA reports quoting â€œReutersâ€.
At least four policemen were wounded when the bomber set off explosives after approaching one of their vehicles near a major concert hall in the Chechen capital Grozny, witnesses told Reuters.
Itar-Tass, citing a local law enforcement source, said 10 people had been wounded by the blast, which is the first suicide bomb in Grozny in almost a year.
Russia is fighting an Islamist insurgency in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus, which includes Chechnya where separatist rebels have fought two devastating wars with Moscow since the mid-1990s.
It was not immediately clear whether the reported death referred to the bomber. Officials were not immediately available for comment.
Youths fueled by poverty and the ideology of global jihad stage near-daily attacks in the North Caucasus, and the Kremlin has named the region its single biggest domestic problem.