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| Grozny: Suicide bombing hits Chechen capital | Grozny: Suicide bombing hits Chechen capital |
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| Four police officers have been killed and four others injured in a suicide attack in the Chechen capital, Grozny, Russia's interior ministry says. | |
| The attack took place outside a hall where a concert marking Grozny's City Day was about to take place. | The attack took place outside a hall where a concert marking Grozny's City Day was about to take place. |
| A statement from the ministry said police were searching a "suspicious" young man when he detonated a device. | A statement from the ministry said police were searching a "suspicious" young man when he detonated a device. |
| Grozny was ravaged by two wars between Russia and Chechen separatists but has been relatively calm in recent years. | Grozny was ravaged by two wars between Russia and Chechen separatists but has been relatively calm in recent years. |
| "Police officers on duty at the event noticed a suspicious young man near metal detectors set up at the concert hall," the ministry's statement said. | |
| "When the police decided to search him and establish his identity, the man blew himself up." | |
| There has been no information about any civilian casualties. | |
| After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Chechnya saw a brief period of de facto independence, two wars with Russia and an Islamist insurgency. | |
| Moscow-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov has cracked down hard on militants in recent years and overseen a major rebuilding programme in Grozny. | |
| But sporadic violence continues, however, including a triple suicide bombing in 2011 which killed six people. |