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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 5 april 2017

Russian police hunt possible accomplices of suicide bomber

I. TITOVA jured in clashes between
V. ISACHENKOV ethnic Kyrgyz and minority
Associated Press Uzbeks in 2010.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) St. Petersburg has a large
— Investigators searched diaspora of people from
for possible accomplices Kyrgyzstan and other most-
of a 22-year-old native of ly Muslim former Soviet
the Central Asian country republics in Central Asia.
of Kyrgyzstan identified as They have fled ethnic ten-
the suicide bomber in the sion, poverty and unem-
St. Petersburg subway, as ployment for jobs in Russia.
residents came to grips While most Central Asian
Tuesday with the first major migrants hold temporary
terrorist attack in Russia’s work permits or work ille-
second-largest city since gally, thousands have re-
the Soviet collapse. ceived Russian citizenship
The bomber, Akbarzhon in recent decades.
Dzhalilov, had lived in Russian media said
St. Petersburg for several Dzhalilov worked with his
years, working as a car re- father in a car repair shop
pairman and later at a su- and then became a cook
shi bar. Pages on his social at one of the city’s many
media networks reflected sushi bars. He stayed in St.
his interest in radical Islam Petersburg when his par- A woman lays flowers at a symbolic memorial outside Tekhnologichesky Institute subway station
and boxing, but those who ents moved back to Kyr- in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A bomb blast tore through a subway train deep
met Dzhalilov described gyzstan. under Russia’s second-largest city St. Petersburg Monday, killing several people and wounding
many more in a chaotic scene that left victims sprawled on a smoky platform.
him as a calm and friendly One former colleague at (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
man. the sushi chain described
Russia’s health minister Dzhalilov, who turned 22 country about a month a red parka with a fur col- ly after the blast.Security
raised the death toll to on Saturday, as “a very ago, and unlike past trips lar and blue wool hat. He experts have described
14, including the bomber. kind person.” when he traveled directly wore a backpack believed people from Central Asia
About 50 others remained “He was a non-conflict back to St. Petersburg, he to hold the bomb that was as fertile recruits for radi-
hospitalized, some in grave person. We didn’t expect returned via Moscow. In- loaded with metal balls cal Islamist preachers, who
condition. Many were stu- to hear such news today,” vestigators are looking into and screws for maximum have become increasingly
dents heading home Mon- said the woman, who whether he met possible damage.The Investigative active on social networks.
day after classes on one of spoke on condition of ano- accomplices in Moscow, Committee, Russia’s top Dzhalilov followed some
the city’s busy north-south nymity because she feared according to Russian me- investigative agency, said radical Islamist pages on
lines. for her personal safety. dia reports.Security cam- it also found Dzhalilov’s Russian social network, and
No one has claimed re- Neighbors in Osh also de- eras caught the bespec- DNA on a bag with a simi- media reports quoted in-
sponsibility for the bomb- scribed him as a nice and tacled Dzhalilov as he lar bomb that was found vestigators alleging he was
ing, which came as Presi- friendly man. entered the subway, ap- and deactivated at an- linked to the Islamic State
dent Vladimir Putin was Dzhalilov visited his home pearing calm and clad in other subway station short- group.q
visiting his hometown, rais-
ing speculation it could London:
have been timed for his
long string of bombings of Police charge 6 more in beating of asylum-seeker
trip. The attack follows a
Russian planes, trains and
transportation facilities. LONDON (AP) — Authorities charges from the Friday at- ing to police. tured spine, fractured eye
Many of the attacks were in London have charged tack on 17-year-old Reker Police say that upon learn- socket and a brain bleed.
linked to radical Islamists. six more people in the vi- Ahmed, which police are ing the teen was an asy- He was placed in an in-
Before Dzhalilov traveled cious beating of a teenage investigating as a hate lum-seeker, the suspects duced coma.The eight de-
to St. Petersburg where he asylum-seeker, bringing the crime.Ahmed, an Iranian- chased him through the fendants who made court
eventually got Russian citi- number of defendants in Kurdish asylum-seeker, was streets and beat him. The appearances Tuesday
zenship, his ethnic Uzbek the unprovoked attack to waiting at a bus stop with attack stopped only af- were granted conditional
family lived in Osh, the city 13. two friends when they were ter police sirens could be bail. Five others appeared
in southern Kyrgyzstan that Eight people, including a approached by a group of heard and bystanders in- in court on Monday, one of
saw more than 400 people 15-year-old boy, appeared youths in the London bor- tervened. whom was remanded into
killed and thousands in- in court Tuesday to face ough of Croydon, accord- Ahmed suffered a frac- custody.q