Several victims in Krasnodar bombing

26.08.2003 Editor

Three bombs exploded in succession in Krasnodar streets: “Rus” cafe in Trudovaya street, “Joy” cafe in Yan Poluyan street, and on a bus stop in Dostoyevsky street.

As Lt. Gen. Sergei Kucheruk, the chief of the regional Interior Ministry department said in his statement at the press-conference in Krasnodar three persons died at the site 17 received different wounds in the bombs explosions. There are 11 victims remained in the city hospitals at the moment the top policeman said.

Three basic versions of the Monday morning blasts are being considered by the regional Interior Ministry detectives team, terrorism is one of the main. “This sound reasonable since the blasts came almost simultaneously at the different crowded sites of the city,” reported the head of the Krasnodar Territory police department.

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