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BBC: Trans-Dniester blast kills eight

6 July 2006


The blast happened near the city centre

At least eight people have been killed in an explosion on a city minibus in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region, officials say. More than 20 people were injured - some seriously - in the blast in the city of Tiraspol. Officials said they believed it was caused by a bomb.

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Monsters and Critics.com: Russian servicewoman among 8 dead in Transnistria bombing

Jul 6, 2006


A bomb placed aboard a microbus killed eight persons including a Russian Army nurse in the renegade Moldovan province of Transnistria, the Infotag news agency reported on Thursday.

A Mercedes bus operated by a public transport company had just pulled up to a major Tiraspol intersection when a bomb in the vehicle detonated, said Ivan Leshukov, a city police spokesman. Video cameras taped the explosion and police were reviewing the tapes for clues, Leshukov said. News reports described the bus as 'torn to bits.' All eight dead were passengers on the fully-loaded bus. The injured included Russian Army captain Aleksander Zakusilo and sergeant Igor Polezhaev. Moscow maintains some 1,500 troops, an army headquarters, and three massive munitions depots in Transnistria.

Passengers of adjacent trolly bus, and pedestrians, were caught in the explosion was well. A total 26 persons received or were receiving treatment at Tiraspol hospitals, the report said. Twenty of the injured were listed in serious to critical condition. Hospital officials by afternoon had issued a call for blood donors.

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Bucharest Daily News: Eight killed in Trans-Dniester bus blast

July 7, 2006


An explosion ripped apart a small civilian bus in the Moldovan separatist republic of Trans-Dniester early yesterday, killing eight people and injuring 46, the republic's official Olvia Pres news agency said. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. But a separatist official suggested that a passenger linked to criminal groups might have been carrying a bomb that went off accidentally

Oleg Beleakov, the separatists' deputy interior minister, was quoted as telling RIA Novosti that a passenger might have been carrying a bomb meant for a commando killing between criminal business groups, and it might have exploded accidentally on the bus.

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