MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti) – A Moscow court sentenced four men to lengthy prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment Monday for their role in organizing a 2011 suicide terrorist attack on an airport in the Russian capital that left 37 dead.
Prosecutors said the men − Bashir Khamkhoyev, Akhmed Yevloyev and brothers Islam and Ilez Yandiyev − assisted the suicide bomber by organizing his travel from Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia and providing him with the bomb.
The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Yevloyev to 10 years in a penal colony, while the other three defendants – of whom only Islam Yandiyev had admitted his guilt – were sentenced to life in prison. The four men have 10 days to appeal the verdicts.
On January 24, 2011, Yevloyev’s brother Magomed detonated explosives in Domodedovo Airport’s international arrivals hall, killing dozens and injuring 172.
Doku Umarov, a leader of the simmering Islamist insurgency in Russia’s turbulent North Caucasus region, later claimed responsibility for the attack.
In recent years the North Caucasus republics have been plagued by violence and regular clashes between militants and federal forces.
© RIA Novosti.
Domodedovo Airport terrorist attack: 3D-reconstruction
No comments :
Post a Comment