27 May 2010, 14:00

Since May 2009, 20 suicide-bombers blew them up in Northern Caucasus

During the period after May 15, 2009, when a suicide-bomber for the first time blew him up in Chechnya after cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, and until today 20 terror acts have been committed by 22 suicide-bombers in "hot" regions of Northern Caucasus - Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.

In total, these terror acts killed 89 persons and wounded 400 more. After March 30, 2010, the date of the latest inventory of this sort, five self-explosions were committed.

Since then, two terror acts were committed by suicide-bombers in Dagestan (on March 31 and April 29) and Ingushetia (on April 5 and 9) each. In Chechnya, there were no terror acts with participation of suicide-bombers this year.

However, according to law enforcement bodies, a potential suicide-bomber was killed in the Grozny District on May 8.

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