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10 suspects held in Russia train bombing
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-03-10 19:55
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MOSCOW - Ten men captured by Russian security forces in a raid that killed a militant leader last week have been arrested as suspects in a deadly November train bombing, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.
The suspects were detained in a two-day operation in a village in the mainly Muslim Ingushetia province that officials said left eight dead including Alexander Tikhomirov, a prominent insurgent leader who went by the name Said Buryatsky.
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The train bombing was the deadliest attack in Russia outside the North Caucasus in five years and raised fears of a new wave of bombings in Russia's heartland.
Moscow's Basmanny Court sanctioned the arrest of the ten suspects last week and they have been brought to the capital, state-run RIA quoted court spokeswoman Anna Usachyova as saying.
Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the Nevsky Express bombing on unofficial Islamist websites, but Buryatsky himself had never claimed responsibility.?
