Russia says alleged passenger train bomber killed
The head of Russia’s main security agency has confirmed that a prominent militant connected with last year’s fatal bombing of a passenger train has been killed in Ingushetia.
In footage shown on Russian television, Federal Security Service director Alexander Bortnikov made the report to President Dmitry Medvedev.
Bortnikov said Alexander Tikhomirov, a Caucasus rebel ideologue who went by the nom de guerre of Said Buryatsky, was among eight insurgents killed in a police operation this week in the hamlet of Ekazhevo.
Bortnikov said Saturday that evidence found after the attack directly linked Tikhomirov and the other dead militants to last November’s bombing of a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train, in which 26 people died.
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