At least three Interior Ministry troops were killed and another three were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a Grozny department store on Monday, investigators said.
The attack occurred around 12:40 p.m. at the entrance to the Voentorg department store on the outskirts of Chechnya’s capital, the Investigative Committee said in a statement carried by Interfax.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov blamed the bombing on Islamist militants led by Khuseyn Gakayev, a Chechen-born militant who was named last year as a deputy to rebel leader Doku Umarov.