Suicide bomber kills 15 at Russian train station
Fifteen people died and scores were wounded Sunday as a suicide bomber struck at a railway station in southern Russia, officials said, heightening concern about terrorism ahead of February's Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack in Volgograd, but it came several months after Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov called for new attacks against civilian targets in Russia, including the Sochi Games.
Volgograd, 550 miles south of Moscow, lies about 400 miles northeast of Sochi, a Black Sea resort flanked by the North Caucasus Mountains.
Suicide bombings and other attacks linked to Islamic rebels roaming the North Caucasus have rocked Russia for years. The government has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers, police and other security personnel to protect the Olympics, President Vladimir Putin's pet project, and the organizers have pledged to make the Sochi Games the "safest Olympics in history."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/12/29/russia-train-station-explosion/4239187/
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Mercy. Why do people want to do things like this?
