MOSCOW. May 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Aslanbek Aslakhanov, a Russian State Duma deputy representing the Chechen Republic, says that according to his sources, some 30 people died in Monday's terrorist attack in the Chechen village of Znamenskoye.
"The figure does not include those who are currently buried under debris, under concrete slabs," he told Interfax on Monday.
Aslakhanov said the location of the explosion was purposefully chosen. "It is the same handwriting as in the explosion of the Government House in Grozny, not so long ago. The explosion took place near a Federal Security Service office. There are also two apartment blocks, a marketplace and a large number of cars there just one hundred meters away from the district administration building," he said.
Aslakhanov expects similar acts of terrorism in the future. "I find a growth in their number quite possible," he said.
He repeated his proposal to set up a special team of detectives and investigators of the Federal Security Service, the Prosecutor General's office and Interior Ministry to operate in the Caucasus, not Moscow and professionally investigate such acts of terrorism and trace their contractors.