[Dramatic Video] Female Russian suicide bomber hits Russian bus, kills six

IBelieve · Oct 22, 2013

Suicide bomber hits Russian bus, kills six

AP October 22, 2013, 1:20 pm

At least five people died when an explosive device tore through a passenger bus in southern Russia. AP

A female suicide bomber has blown herself up on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, killing six people and injuring about 30, officials say.

The attack added to security fears ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The suspected bomber was from the North Caucasus, a region in southern Russia where an Islamic insurgency has been simmering for more than a decade following two separatist wars in Chechnya. A local official said the suspected attacker was married to an Islamic militant.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for Monday's suicide bombing, but it was the first outside the North Caucasus since Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov three months ago called for a resumption of attacks on civilians and urged militants to target the Sochi Games, which are to be held in February.

Russia in past years has seen a series of terror attacks on buses, aeroplanes and other forms of transportation, some of them carried out by suicide bombers. The last suicide attack on a bus was in 2008.

The suspected bomber was from Dagestan, one of the predominantly Muslim republics in the North Caucasus, said Vladimir Markin, the spokesman for the Investigative Committee, Russia's main investigative agency.

In a statement, he identified the suspect as 30-year-old Naida Asiyalova. Russian state television showed pictures of Asiyalova's passport.

Rasul Temirbekov, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee's branch in Dagestan, said the suspected bomber was married to an ethnic Russian, Dmitry Sokolov, whom she had met while both were university students in Moscow.

She encouraged him to become a rebel, and he quickly gained a reputation as an expert in explosives, Temirbekov said. Sokolov, whose nom de guerre is Abdul Jabbar, has been on the run.

Temirbekov said that the suspected suicide bomber had a fatal bone illness.

Video broadcast on state Rossiya television showed that Monday's explosion occurred as the bus was moving in the far right lane of a divided six-lane road. The video, taken from a vehicle travelling behind the bus, showed a burst of flame and grey smoke. Fragments of what appeared to be window frames and other parts of the bus were left scattered across the road.

When the bus came to a stop, the video showed many passengers jumping out.

Markin said seven people died, including the suicide bomber, and 33 asked for medical assistance, 28 of whom were hospitalised. Emergency officials said about 40 people were on the bus.

IBelieve · Oct 22, 2013

IBelieve · Oct 22, 2013

The horrifying moment a woman suicide bomber kills six and injures 30 in Russian bus blast: 'Black widow' may have had terminal disease

Dashboard camera shows explosion rip through bus in Volgograd today
Nadia Asiyalova, a 30-year-old from Dagestan, was named as attacker
She is believed to have recently converted to Islam and married rebel
There are also reports she had an incurable bone illness

By WILL STEWART PUBLISHED: 18:09 GMT, 21 October 2013 | UPDATED: 20:03 GMT, 21 October 2013

This shocking image shows the moment a woman 'suicide bomber' killed six people on a Russian bus, less than four months before the country hosts the 2014 Winter Olympics.The attacker was named as Naida Asiyalova, 30, from the volatile region of Dagestan. The picture is taken from footage captured on a dashboard camera of a car driving behind the bus.Some reports say Asiyalova was ill with a serious and possibly terminal bone disease.

Atrocity: A dashboard camera captures the moment a female suicide bomber explodes on a bus in Volgograd, killing six

Naida Asiyalova was alleged to be the spouse of a 21 year old rebel commander named Dmitry 'Giraffe' Sokolov and to have recently adopted Islam

She is from the North Caucasus, a region in southern Russia where an Islamic insurgency has been simmering for more than a decade following two separatist wars in Chechnya.Asiyalova was also alleged to be the spouse of a 21 year old rebel commander named Dmitry 'Giraffe' Sokolov and to have recently adopted Islam. The bombing in Volgograd - formerly Stalingrad - at 2pm today led to more than 30 injuries, with at least half a dozen maimed.It is the worst atrocity for three years in a region where Islamic extremists are active.'According to preliminary information, a native of Dagestan, 30-year-old Naida Asiyalova, blew herself up,' said a statement from Russian investigators.

'She boarded the bus at one of the bus stops and an explosion took place almost immediately afterwards.

The bus, pictured before the devastating blast

Aftermath: It is the worst atrocity for three years in a region where Islamic extremists are active.

Veil: Smoke from the explosion obscures the road

Earlier reports claimed she was the widow of a slain commander but it was later clarified that her husband remains alive and wanted by the Russian authorities.Female suicide bombers are dubbed 'black widows' in Russia because their male relatives have often been killed by security forces. Sokolov - from Siberia - is said to have adopted Wahhabism in 2010 and to have fitted a suicide belt to another female killer in Makhachkala, the Dagestan capital.

The passport of Naida Asiyalova. Some reports state she was seriously ill - and perhaps dying - of a bone disease

The attacker was named as Naida Asiyalova, 30, from the volatile region of Dagestan. She is believed to have been suffering from a terminal illness

He secretly wed Asiyalova in Moscow, it was reported.The green and white city bus was left mangled on the street after the explosion.Many of the passengers were students.'It was a powerful explosion - a huge blast,' said a father called Vladimir who rescued his daughter from the carnage.'The bus was torn to pieces. When I came to pick her up, half the bus was simply not there.

''I saw a woman sitting inside the bus. She was covered with blood and I couldn't make out whether she was alive or not.

'She was just sitting there'

- An eyewitness

Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee, a Russian federal police agency, said: 'Six dead people have been found, as well as the body of the suicide bomber.'Some 28 were in hospital with eight in a grave condition.A resident called Ilya said: 'I saw a woman sitting inside the bus. She was covered with blood and I couldn't make out whether she was alive or not.

'She was just sitting there.'Dramatic footage from a dashboard camera in a nearby car showed the explosion ripping through the bus on a tree-lined road, sending shards of metal and glass flying. Passengers scrambled out of doors and windows after the bus had stopped.'There was a blast - a bang - all the glass flew out of the windows,' said eyewitness Ivan.'I saw people start to fall out and run out to escape the bus. It was a horrible sight.'Russian president Vladimir Putin has already ordered a security clampdown for the Winter Olympics which will be held around 500 miles from the blast scene in Sochi. Previous female suicide bomber attacks saw 37 people at a Moscow airport in 2011 and twin suicide bombings that killed 40 people on the Moscow subway in 2010.In 2002, Chechen women wearing black chadors and suicide belts also took part in a three-day Moscow theatre hostage siege in which around 130 people were killed.

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