Liquefied gas tanker bombing thwarted in Dagestan - ministry
MAKHACHKALA, Russia. July 20 (Interfax) - Police have prevented an attack in which an 18-tonne tanker filled with liquefied natural gas would have exploded near an army base in Dagestan, a republic in Russia's North Caucasus, on Sunday, the day new draftees were to take their oath, the Dagestani Interior Ministry said on Friday.
On Thursday, police were tipped off that a tanker had arrived at a gas station outside the village of Kafyr-Kumukh and that a bomb was attached to the vehicle. The same day, police drove the tanker into a nearby field, and Federal Security Service (FSB) experts defused the bomb.
"Our investigators have found out that the gas tanker was to explode on July 22, the military oath-taking day - in Buinaksk, [near] the base of the 136th Motorized Infantry Brigade," an Interior Ministry spokesman told Interfax.
On Thursday, a Dagestani spokesman for the North Caucasus terrorism prevention committee told Interfax that a tanker bombing had been prevented in the republic.
