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Car Bomb Kills 7 in Ingushetia, Including Top Official
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=123F9FF:3919ACA Deputy Interior
Minister Dzhabrail Kostoyev was killed along with his two bodyguards
when car exploded on  roadside near main city of Nazran





A Russian special forces officer guards the wreckage of a car outside
Nazran 17 May 2006A powerful car bomb killled a top police official in
the southern Russian region of Ingushetia.  Six other people were also
killed in the attack in the region located next to the breakaway
region of Chechnya.  

Ingushetia's Deputy Interior Minister Dzhabrail Kostoyev was killed
along with his two bodyguards when the car exploded on a roadside near
Ingushetia's main city of Nazran. Four civilians also died when their
car hit Kostoyev's armored vehicle, which police say was thrown about
20 meters by the explosion. Kostoyev had been the target of several
previous attacks in a region that has been plagued by violence for
years. Most of the violence is blamed on militants fighting the
government of a region that borders war-torn Chechnya.   Meanwhile,
unidentifed gunmen killed a prison official in the republic of
Karachayevo-Cherkessiya, located west of Ingushetia. Poverty,
government corruption, and instability blamed on the long-running
Chechen war have fueled anger throughout the North Caucasus region,
which is home to a patchwork of mostly Muslim peoples.  


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