Emir of Caucasus’ ordered train attack that killed 26, say Islamist militants
Islamist extremists said yesterday that they planted the bomb that derailed a Russian express train, killing 26 people and injuring more than 100.
The claim of responsibility came from Chechen militants linked to Doku Umarov, a separatist warlord in the violent Russian North Caucasus.
A statement posted on a website sympathetic to the militants said that the attack on the Nevsky Express between Moscow and St Petersburg had been “prepared and carried . . . pursuant to the order of the Emir of Caucasus Emirate”.
Mr Umarov declared himself head of a “Caucasus Emirate” in 2007 as part of the rebels’ campaign to turn Russia’s Muslim-dominated republics of the North Caucasus into a single Islamic state.
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