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Deadly Bombing Hits Bus in Southern Russia Suicide Bomber Strikes Bus in Southern Russia
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MOSCOW — A suicide bomber attacked a bus in Volgograd, Russia, on Monday, killing at least 5 people and wounding more than 25, officials said, a case in which the violence of the turbulent North Caucasus apparently spilled into the Russian heartland. MOSCOW — It was impossible not to notice her, one witness said. The young Muslim woman, her head covered by a light green scarf, boarded the No. 29 bus in the city of Volgograd and took a seat near the back. She rode for two stops, quietly looking out the window as the bus zipped along Azure Street. Then she blew herself up.
Local news agencies reported that investigators were focusing on the possibility that the attacker was a woman whose identity papers were found near the explosion. The local reports quoted officials who said the woman had been married to a leader of a rebel group in Dagestan, the predominantly Muslim republic in the North Caucasus where Russian security forces have been engaged in a fierce effort to suppress separatists.

Andrew Roth and Andrew E. Kramer contributed reporting.

Volgograd, previously known as Stalingrad, is about 520 miles north of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, or just about halfway to Moscow.

Andrew Roth contributed reporting