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MOSCOW, May 10: The death toll in Russia’s Victory Day bombing near Chechnya rose to 41 on Friday, and foreign expressions of sympathy seemed likely to fuel Moscow’s case for a tougher crackdown on its unruly southern rim.
The blast ripped through a crowd celebrating Russia’s 1945 victory over the Nazis, killing women, children and bandsmen in the Dagestan town of Kaspiisk on the Caspian Sea, across the border from Chechnya.
US President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the European Union offered sympathy and condemned Thursday’s remote-controlled blast as an act of terrorism.—Reuters
