Apartment blast takes toll
By Angela Charlton
The Associated Press
MOSCOW— Security forces
checked railway stations and mar
kets across Russia Tuesday for
suspects and explosives after at
least 118 people died in a suspect
ed bomb blast that demolished an
apartment building.
Rescuers continued to search
the wreckage for victims of Mon
day’s explosion in Moscow, the
fourth major blast in Russia in two
weeks. Search crews today
reached the building’s basement,
which was full of water from burst
pipes. Children’s toys floated in
the muck.
No one has claimed responsibil
ity for the explosion that leveled
the eight-story building. Police
suspect a bomb caused the blast.
Police found a cache of nearly 2
tons of explosives and a 70-yard
length of fuse in another apartment
block in southwestern Moscow, In
terior Minister Vladimir Rushailo
said today. The explosives were
discovered Monday and the build
ing was evacuated, and bomb ex
perts exploded them safely at a mil
itary training ground, Interior
Ministry officials said.
Authorities blamed terrorists,
and the government ordered a se
curity operation in Moscow and
other cities. Police fanned out
through railway and subway sta
tions and other crowded areas of
the capital, checking identity pa
pers. They also searched for stores
of explosives in buildings across
Moscow.
Three people suspected of being
linked with the blast have been de
tained, police said. They gave no
details, though the Interfa^news
agency said two owned compa
nies with offices on the ground
floor of the destroyed building.
Police released sketches and
photographs of three other men
suspected of involvement in the ex
plosion, including a man who al
legedly rented space in the build
ing destroyed Monday and another
Moscow apartment building that
was blown up Thursday. At least
93 people died in that blast.
Islamic militants were blamed
for an apartment blast in the
Dagestani city of Buinaksk about a
week ago that killed 64. One per
son died and about 30 were in
jured in the bombing of a crowd
ed shopping mall near the
Kremlin on Aug. 31.
None of the cases has been
solved.
The lower house of parliament,
the State Duma, opened today af
ter its summer break with a closed
session on security in the wake of
the explosions and fighting be
tween Russian forces and Islamic
militants in the southern Russian
region of Dagestan.
“It is obvious to us that both in
Dagestan and in Moscow we are
dealing not with independent
fighters, but rather with well
trained international saboteurs,”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
told the session, according to the
Interfax news agency.
“They aren’t self-taught, but
rather demolition specialists in
the widest sense,” he said.
Many officials linked the two
apartment building blasts to the
fighting in Dagestan, which neigh
bors breakaway Chechnya. Putin
called for a “quarantine” around
Chechnya, to cut off a route for
weapons and Islamic militants.
President Boris Yeltsin ordered
tight security at airports, nuclear
power stations, oil pipelines and
other possible targets across the
country. He ordered Moscow
Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to have all
the 30,000 residential buildings in
Moscow searched for explosives.
Police said this afternoon that
more than 26,000 had been
checked.
“Terrorists are trying to scare
the Russian people. They are try
ing to demoralize the state,”
Yeltsin declared.
He met today with Defense Min
ister Igor Sergeyev and Interior
Minister Rushailo, who is in
charge of police.
The Russian military will join
the security operations in
Moscow, Sergeyev said afterward.
He did not give details.
Luzkhov hinted that the capi
tal’s “guests” or visitors — espe
cially those not registered with the
police — could be evicted.
Business was slack at Moscow
markets Tuesday. At one market,
about 150 riot troops demanded
documents from every vendor and
many shoppers, detaining more
than 50 people not properly regis
tered.
Monday’s blast increased con
cern that the government might use
the rash of explosions to declare a
r
state of emergency. Opponents of
Yeltsin have claimed for months
that the president is looking for a
chance to assume emergency pow
ers so he can suppress his foes and
bolster his hold on power.
Communist Party leader Gen
nady Zyuganov said today he had
seen a plan drafted by Yeltsin’s
staff for a state of emergency.
Kremlin aides immediately de
nied any such plans. The deputy
chief of Yeltsin’s staff, Igor Shab
durasulov, called Zyuganov’s
comments “delirium.”
The eight-story building
crashed to the ground in Mon
day’s blast, its beige bricks
crushed to rubble and dust.
By today, rescuers had removed
118 bodies, including 12 children,
he Emergency Situations Ministry
said. Nine wounded people were
hospitalized, including several
residents of a nearby building.
The building was located in a
quiet, nondescript residential
area, close to a school and two
kindergartens.
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By Anthony Deutsch
The Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Nether
lands— A genocide suspect
who allegedly proclaimed
himself the “Serb Adolf’ shot
a fellow Bosnian Serb soldier
in the back of the head in
1992 for helping Muslims, a
witness told the Yugoslav
war crimes tribunal Tuesday.
Goran Jelisic, 31, confessed
last year to 31 counts of war
crimes and crimes against hu
manity for murdering Croats
and Muslims at the infamous
Luka prison camp near Brcko
in northern Bosnia. He is now
standing trial for genocide, the
U.N. tribunal’s most serious
charge.
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crimes constitute genocide,
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punishment of life imprison
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O” told the three judges hear
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and a guard with a rifle dur
ing his 12 weeks there.
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he came in with a guard and
asked, ‘Who is the Serb who
helped Muslims?’” the wit
ness testified, referring to a
soldier who had helped Mus
lims flee the area. He said that
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