Chechen conflict spreads
The week's news at a glance.
Magas, Russia
The president of a Russian province near Chechnya barely escaped an assassination attempt this week when a suicide bomber rammed his car. Murat Zyazikov, the Kremlin-allied president of Ingushetia, was in his steel-plated Mercedes when a car packed with dynamite crashed into his motorcade. The explosion blew the roofs off nearby houses, but the president and his bodyguards were only slightly injured. “This was another attempt to drag Ingushetia into the conflict zone, to expand the zone of hostilities,” Zyazikov said. Zyazikov, a former KGB officer, has been expelling many of the Chechen refugees who are living in camps in Ingushetia.
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