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Publication: The Hindu
Date: August 10, 2000
Moscow, Aug. 10.
(UNI): Pakistani citizens are among the mercenaries detained in Chechnya
in connection with Tuesday's bombing in a busy Moscow underpass which killed
up to eight people and injured more than 90, Russian Interior Ministry
sources have disclosed.
Reiterating the charge
about the existence of terrorist training camps in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,
Afghanistan and Tajikistan, a spokesman of the Ministry said yesterday
the fact that Afghan Taliban continued to enter the territories of the
former Soviet central Asian republics was proved when Uzbek authorities
said their troops had liquidated Afghan bandits who came from Tajikistan
on their way to Chechnya.
A Novosti report said
the authorities had also found a Chinese fighting on the side of the Chechen
militants, who are suspected to be behind the bomb attack.
