Female Russian Suicide Bomber Attacks Bus, Kills six

                 

A female suicide bomber attacked a bus in southern Russia on Monday, authorities said, killing at least six people in the deadliest such blast outside the volatile North Caucasus region in nearly three years.

 The attack, which investigators blamed on a 30-year-old woman from Dagestan, the North Caucasus province at the center of an insurgency, also wounded 32 people, of whom eight were in critical condition, the federal Investigative Committee said.

 "There was a blast - a bang - all the glass flew out of the windows," an eyewitness named Ivan, who had been driving behind the bus, told state-run Rossiya-24 television.The federal Investigative Committee named the suspect as Naida Asiyalova, 30, of Dagestan. 

The cloud of smoke quickly dissipated and then I saw people start to fall out and run out to escape the bus," he said. "It was a horrible sight."

"This woman got on the bus at one of the stops and the explosion occurred almost immediately afterwards. This was confirmed by the surviving passengers," Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.

 Identity documents belonging to the suspected bomber were found near the site, and that she was believed to have been the wife of an Islamist militant.

This is so sad....