BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

05/07/2008

Dozens hurt in Belarus bomb blast

FOCUS News Agency

London. At least 50 people have been injured in Belarus after a bomb exploded during a concert in the capital, Minsk, reported BBC news.

The event was taking place in the centre of the city to mark the ex-Soviet nation's independence day.

President Alexander Lukashenko, whose rule has been denounced as autocratic by the US and the European Union, was attending the concert.

Police later found an unexploded device in Minsk, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted the interior ministry as saying.

There is no clear motive for the attack, but police say it may have been an act of "hooliganism".

Source:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n145141

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