MOSCOW - At least 14 people were killed and 28 wounded when an explosion ripped through a trolley bus in the Russian city of Volgograd on Monday, the country's third deadly attack in four days.
The explosion, which authorities blamed on a suicide bomber, tore out much of the electric bus' exterior, left mangled bodies on the street and raised fears about more violence in the lead-up to the Sochi Winter Olympics that Russia will host in six weeks.
NBC's Jim Maceda reports on the trolley bus explosion in Volgograd, Russia – a third explosion in the country in the last few days – as the Sochi Olympics near.
"For the second day, we are dying - it's a nightmare," a woman near the scene told Reuters, her voice trembling. "What are we supposed to do, just walk now?"
Volgograd, a city of around one million about 400 miles northeast of Sochi, is a key transport hub for southern Russia, with many bus routes linking it to the volatile provinces in the North Caucasus.
On Sunday, 17 people were killed in a terror attack by a suspected female suicide bomber at a railway station in Volgograd. And on Friday, a car bomb killed three people in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk, 170 miles east of Sochi, where the Olympics will be held. (Continue Reading.)
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The suicide bomber is Pavel Pechenkin a former paramedic, who has converted to Islam according to the British newspaper the Telegraph.
This is too tragic that a person whose profession is to save lives now destroys it because of his new religion. Islam is indeed a barbaric, demonically inspired cult whose greatest glory is death. It boggles my mind how intelligent people can follow this filth of a religion which is devoid of any humanity. I am glad the country of Angola is taking steps to ban Islam. That is one country that is doing the right thing to confront this evil. I hope others will follow suit. A religion that turns otherwise normal human beings into killers should not be allowed to be practiced anywhere on the face of the earth. Folks let us call a spade a spade and confront this evil called Islam which is affecting the world like the bubonic plague.
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