Attempt to blow up rolling stock with the oil has been undertaken in Ingushetia

17.03.2006 Editor

INGUSHETIA, 17 March, Caucasus Times. Attempt to blow up rolling stock with the oil has been made in the city of Karabulak in Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia. On Friday at around 2:00 Moscow time there was an explosion on the railway in Karabulak at the moment when the rolling stock with the oil was passing this place.

Sources in the Interior Ministry of Ingushetia indicated that the railway was seriously damaged in the place of the explosion. Examinations aimed at identifing other possible explosive devices in the location of the incident are currently going on.

Press service of the Interior Ministry told CaucasusTimes correspondent that rolling stock with the oil was not damaged. No victims of the explosion have been reported.

Representatives of the law enforcement agencies working in the place of the explosion found detonators, fuzes and accumulaters, which had been used for explosion. Another explosive device has been found in about 10-12 metres from the place of the exlposion. This explosive device has been liquidated by the sappers from Ingushetian OMON.

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