At least 18 people were killed and 40 others injured when a suicide bomber blew herself up near the metal detectors stationed at the entrance of a train station in the Russian city of Volgograd ahead of February’s Olympic
Games. The train station was packed with afternoon travellers.Russia’s Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said officials had launched an inquiry into a suspected “act of terror”.
The city of Volgograd was attacked in October by a female suicide bomber with links to Islamists fighting federal forces in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus. Militants are seeking to impose an Islamist state throughout Russia’s North Caucasus. Their leader Doku Umarov has ordered his footsoldiers to target civilians outside the region and disrupt the Olympic Games.