Statements differ about suspect arrested for Mozdok explosionRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus – Russian officials announced the arrest of a certain Murad Margoshvili, whom they suspect of organizing the bomb attack on a bus filled with Russian soldiers in the North Ossetian town of Mozdok on June 5. However, their statements about the arrest appear to be inconsistent.
According to the Russian Interior Ministry, Margoshvili, who was carrying documents in the name of Murad Madayev, was arrested in Ingushetia in early October. However, Ilya Shabalkin of the North Caucasus "counter-terrorist operation" command center said that Margoshvili had been arrested on November 3.
Meanwhile, the press service of the Ingush Interior Ministry refused to confirm Margoshvili´s arrest. ”We have no information about this operation,” they claimed.
Margoshvili is also accused of being a Chechen guerrilla and that he had been in command of several rebel groups.
Nearly twenty people died in the explosion carried out by a female suicide bomber in the vicinity of Mozdok on June 5 (see PW's report).
(H/E,T) RELATED ARTICLES:
· Russian Interior Ministry's statement (4.11.2003, in Russian)
· Shabalkin's statement (4.11.2003, in Russian)
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