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Bomb Threat Hinders Russian Air Transportation

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

russian airlinesA Russian plane carrying seventy three passengers was made an emergency landing on Sunday after an unknown caller said that there was a bomb on the desk board of the plane This aircraft has took off from the airport just before some seconds the officials said. The Yak-42 plane, the route from Moscow to the Chechen capital of Groznyy, landed at an airport near the city of Volgograd according to Sergey Izvolsky, a spokesman for Russia’s federal aviation authority, Rosaviatsia.

Sergey Izvolsky said that all the passengers are safe and the plane has been evacuated So that it can be examined carefully and the explosive can be traced out. Russia is facing an islamic war in Chechnya where the separatist rebels have fought two wars with Moscow since in the mid of 1990’s and the surrounding provinces in the mainly Muslim north caucus.

Islamist terrorist are predicted to make attacks on the trains in the recent years. But There has been no fatal plane attack since 1990 when Chechnya women blew two planes Overall killing near about ninty people and damaging all the security measures of the airport premises.

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