Premature to call Ingushetia’s Magomed Yevloyev Domodedovo bomber - ministry (updated)
04.02.2011, 22.35
NAZRAN, February 4 (Itar-Tass) -- It would be premature to say that Ingushetia resident Magomed Yevloyev is involved in the terror act at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport, the Ingush Interior Ministry said.
The ministry confirmed that the police had identified the man whose body fragments (the head and a palm) were found on the terror act scene as Magomed Yevloyev, 20-year-old resident of the Ali-Yurt village of the Nazran district. The ministry said that the identification was based on fingerprints and DNA tests.
However, Yevloyev cannot be called the suicide bomber for certain so far, the ministry said. “Apart from Yevloyev’s body fragments, the explosion scene contained four hand fragments whose identity is yet unknown. One of these hands may belong to the suicide bomber,” the ministry said.
Further investigative procedures are necessary to find out why Yevloyev came to the Domodedovo Airport and who owned the other body fragments, the ministry said.
Yevloyev was decommissioned from military service about a year ago. He got married within several months, and disappeared six months ago. No proof of Yevloyev’s possible engagement in the terror act was found in his house. Not a single photo of Yevloyev was found in the house either, the ministry said.
The terror act at the Domodedovo Airport international arrivals hall was committed at 4:32 p.m. Moscow time on January 24. A bomb equivalent to some 5 kilograms TNT went off in the suicide bomber’s belt. The explosion killed 36 people. Another 109 people, among them foreign nationals, are still at hospital.
The federal government will assign 120 million rubles for helping victims of the Monday explosion at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport and families of the dead. A resolution to that effect signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was posted on the government website last Tuesday.
“The Russian budget will assign up to 110 million rubles in one-time allowances to citizens injured in the terror act and to families of the dead on the basis of the lists of victims, including foreign citizens, coordinated with the Health and Social Development Ministry and the Foreign Ministry,” the government resolution says.
“Another ten million rubles will be assigned for compensation of lost property, up to 50,000 rubles per family,” the government resolution said.
In addition, the government ordered the Health and Social Development Ministry and the Federal Medical and Biological Agency to organize rehabilitation of the injured people and families of the dead.
Regional authorities were recommended to assign additional funds for the assistance to the terrorist act victims and families of the dead.
Families, which lost their members in the Monday blast at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport, will be paid three million rubles each; people with severe injuries will get 1.9 million rubles, and 1.2 million rubles will be paid to the lightly injured, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at the Tuesday meeting of the federal government presidium.
The government must support victims of the terror act, Putin said. “I have signed a resolution to that effect, and Moscow city and regional authorities have approved compensations from their budgets,” he noted.
Another criminal case has been opened over the explosion at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Investigation Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass.
He said the case was about the failure to comply with transport security requirements.
“The Investigation Committee opened a criminal case based on Part 3, Article 263.1 of the Russian Criminal Code, that is the failure to provide transport security that resulted in the terror act at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport on January 24,” Markin said.
The initial criminal case in the Domodedovo Airport explosion is based on the charges of terror act, killing of more than two people and illegal distribution of armaments and explosives. The Investigation Committee is scrutinizing the case.
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