Moscow
A suicide bombing killed six people this week outside a prominent hotel near the Kremlin. The attack came just four days after a massive suicide blast in southern Russia killed 44 people on a commuter train, and just two days after elections to the legislature, the State Duma. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said the bombers were two women who asked a passerby for directions to the Duma. Evidently, he said, the bomb went off early, before the women reached their target. Several hundred Russians have died in more than a dozen terrorist attacks in the past year, most of which are believed to be related to the ongoing war in the separatist province of Chechnya.
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