The president of the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia has been wounded in an assassination attempt, apparently launched by a suicide bomber.
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov is said to be in a critical but stable condition in hospital, with head and chest injuries.
Reports said one bodyguard was killed and several others were wounded, after a car travelling at high speed rammed the president's vehicle.
Ingushetia, which neighbours Chechnya, has seen violence soar recently.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the attack, in the city of Nazran, "an act of terror".
He has ordered the interior ministry and the Federal Security Service (FSB) "to fully investigate the attack on the Ingush president's life and to take all the necessary law-enforcement efforts", presidential press secretary Natalya Timakova said. Read more ...
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov is said to be in a critical but stable condition in hospital, with head and chest injuries.
Reports said one bodyguard was killed and several others were wounded, after a car travelling at high speed rammed the president's vehicle.
Ingushetia, which neighbours Chechnya, has seen violence soar recently.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the attack, in the city of Nazran, "an act of terror".
He has ordered the interior ministry and the Federal Security Service (FSB) "to fully investigate the attack on the Ingush president's life and to take all the necessary law-enforcement efforts", presidential press secretary Natalya Timakova said. Read more ...
Source: BBC
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