Russian Soldier Held for Planting Bombs in Residential Areas

MosNews | February 24 2005

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A soldier of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Internal Troops has been detained in Chelyabinsk, central Russia, on suspicion of planting bombs in apartment blocks, RIA-Novosti news agency reported citing Chelyabinsk police authorities.

The police said that homemade bombs were found in the entrance to an apartment block in Chelyabinsk in November 2004 and January 2005.

“Yesterday, criminal investigation officers from the city’s police detained a chief special communications technician from a unit of the Russian Internal Troops on suspicion of committing a crime,” the source said. He added that an investigation is in progress.

A homemade bomb consisting of a metal container with 2 kg of a TNT mixture, smoke powder and aluminium powder, as well as a homemade detonator, two batteries and electrical wires was found by the front door of a 10-storey apartment block in Chelyabinsk on Jan. 5. The building’s residents were evacuated while the bomb was defused.