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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.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. The Russian statement said that police officers on duty at the event "noticed a suspicious young man near metal detectors set up at the concert hall".
"When the police decided to search him and establish his identity, the man blew himself up." "When the police decided to search him and establish his identity, the man blew himself up," it said.
There has been no information about any civilian casualties.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. The ministry added that Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev was preparing to decorate the police involved for preventing what it described as a major terrorist act.
Moscow-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov has cracked down hard on militants in recent years and overseen a major rebuilding programme in Grozny. "They gave their lives to save thousands of people who had come to the concert," Itar-Tass news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
But sporadic violence continues, however, including a triple suicide bombing in 2011 which killed six people.