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Ingushetia Interior Ministry refuted train bombing reports

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INGUSHETIA, October 22, Caucasus Times – The Interior Ministry of the republic officially refuted the information reported recently by several news agencies that the train with servicemen from Russian Kemerovo region was exploded in Ingushetia.

“The incident with the train transporting Kemerovo special task police forces did occur but not in Ingushetia, as the news agencies report. The train was blasted in the vicinity of Olginskaya village of North Ossetia,” a source in the Interior Ministry of Ingushetia said in his interview with the Caucasus Times correspondent. “According to available information, the explosive detonated under baggage car and damaged it. Therefore, the task police personnel did not suffered any casualties.”
Yesterday evening, the train with a special task police forces from Kemerovo region pulled in Nazran railway station. This very day about 8 p.m. the locals of Nazran and nearby villages have heard several consecutive powerful explosions, in the time span from 8 p. m. and 11 p.m. Next morning, the rumors poured the area, that the train had been exploded at Nazran railway station. “Since the munitions in the exploded car which was set ablaze went on blasting, the people thought by mistake those were different consecutive bombings,” the unnamed officer of the Interior Ministry said.

Malika Suleymenova, Caucasus Times, Ingushetia

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