{{A female suicide bomber injured at least 11 police officers and civilians, including two children, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, police said.}}<\/p>\n
Police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said the bomber blew herself up in the central square in the provincial capital, Makhachkala. He did not give details about the injured children.<\/p>\n
Since 2000, at least two dozen women, most of them from the Caucasus, have carried out suicide bombings in Russian cities and aboard trains and planes. <\/p>\n
All were linked to an Islamic insurgency that spread throughout Dagestan and the predominantly Muslim Caucasus region after two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.<\/p>\n
The bombers are often called “black widows” in Russia because many are the widows, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces.<\/p>\n
The Tsarnaev brothers suspected of carrying out last month’s Boston marathon bombings, are ethnic Chechens who lived in Dagestan before moving to the United States. <\/p>\n
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed a shootout with police days after the April 15 bombings, spent six months in Dagestan in 2012.<\/p>\n
Dagestan remains an epicenter of violence in the confrontation between radical Islamists and federal forces.<\/p>\n
This week, a double explosion in Makhachkala killed four civilians and left 44 injured, while three security officers and three suspected militants have been killed in other incidents.<\/p>\n
Human rights groups accuse security agencies of abductions, torture and extrajudicial killings of civilians that further fuel the confrontation with Islamic radicals.<\/p>\n
AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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