Volgograd suicide bomber may have planned terrorist attack in mall - Investigations Committee
MOSCOW. Oct 25 (Interfax) - Naida Asiyalova, a native of Dagestan, may have initially planned to carry out a terrorist attack in the Akvarel mall in Volgograd's Sovetsky district, Investigations Committee official Vladimir Markin told Interfax.
"Asiyalova was in the Samarsky Razyezd area in the Volgograd Dzerzhinsky district in the period between 11:59 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. on October 21," Markin said.
"There, she entered the supermarket Auchan and then arrived at the Akvarel mall in the Sovetsky district in a car driven by a private driver at 1:16 p.m.," Markin said.
"Asiyalova was in the mall until 1:26 p.m. After she saw that there were few people in the mall, she took a Route 29 bus at a public transport stop in Universitetsky Prospekt at 1:31 p.m.," Markin said.