Russia bombing suspects detained

Russian security forces have arrested six people believed to be involved in a recent car bombing in the country’s North Caucasus.

On December 27, 2013, the car bomb attack killed three people near a traffic police building in the southwestern city of Pyatigorsk.

Reports said that the power of the explosion was equal to 50 kilograms of TNT.

According to a statement issued by Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee on Friday, all the detainees confessed to involvement in the bombing. 

“The prompt detention of the suspects has prevented another terrorist act,” the statement said.

On December 29 and 30 last year, two bombings killed 34 people and wounded scores of others in the southwestern city of Volgograd.

The bombings also prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to order security to be tightened across the country.

Russia has been fighting militants since the mid 1990s in its North Caucasus region, where the republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia have been the scene of sporadic attacks and militant clashes.

Violence first broke out in Chechnya in 1994, when 250,000 people were forced to flee to neighboring territories because of a war between Chechen separatists and the Russian army.

After a short-lived period of relative peace from 1996 to 1999, war resumed following attacks blamed on Chechen militant groups.

An estimated 100,000 people have been killed and thousands more displaced in the conflict.

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