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17 killed in suicide attack

MOSCOW JUNE 5. Seventeen Russian air force personnel were killed and 12 injured when a woman suicide bomber walked up to their bus and detonated explosives strapped to her body near Chechnya in southern Russia today.

According to Radio Mayak, the bomber clad in a white coat — the uniform for medical personnel — approached the bus when it slowed down at a railway crossing in Mozdok and triggered the explosives.

PTI

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