2 Survive Chechnya Blast; Toll Rises to 24
Two officers were found alive in the rubble of a police station where a powerful explosion the night before killed at least 24 people in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny.
Besides the deaths, 18 people were injured, said Ruslan Avtayev, the breakaway republic’s emergency situations minister.
Investigators found fragments of an explosive device, Chechnya’s chief prosecutor, Nikolai Kostyuchenko, told Interfax news agency. Other authorities, however, had not ruled out a gas leak or the mishandling of confiscated explosives, Itar-Tass news agency said.
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