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Mosque Attacked In Volgograd Where Bus Bombing Killed Six


The passport of Naida Asiyalova, the main suspect in the Volgograd bus bombing.
The passport of Naida Asiyalova, the main suspect in the Volgograd bus bombing.
A mosque has been attacked in the Russian city of Volgograd, where a suspected female suicide bomber killed six people earlier this week.

Local police say an unknown attacker threw a Molotov cocktail at the mosque early on October 24.

Nobody was hurt in the incident.

On October 22, unknown individuals threw several Molotov cocktails into the house of a local Islamic cleric, which started a fire. Nobody was hurt in that attack either.

The attacks took place after an alleged female Islamist militant from Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan blew herself up inside a bus in Volgograd on October 21, killing six men and women.

Based on reporting by RIA-Novosti and Interfax

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