The private car exploded close to a mosque in the Russian town of Nazran, the capital of Russia’s republic of Ingushetia in the Caucasus, shortly after Friday prayers. According to RT, has injured at least four people and damaged several cars. The bomb may have been targeting the mosque’s imam.
The private car exploded close to a mosque in the Russian town of Nazran, the capital of Russia’s republic of Ingushetia in the Caucasus, shortly after Friday prayers. According to RT, has injured at least four people and damaged several cars. The bomb may have been targeting the mosque’s imam.
"It is possible that this incident was an attack on a prolific imam [Khamzat Chumakov]," the source told Interfax. Chumakov's car was reportedly one of six that were damaged by the blast. The source informs the imam sustained minor injuries.
The official said that four people,aged 19, 23, 42 and 55, were hurt in the explosion. "They received injuries of various degrees of severity,” he said, adding that all of them were taken to hospital.
Meanwhile, Ingushetia's head, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, described the attack as a provocation,
saying that those who committed it were seeking to take advantage of the continuing problems in the religious sphere.
