NAZRAN (N. CAUCASUS), August 10 (RIA Novosti) - The brother of a prosecutor has been killed and 13 people have been wounded in the third attack in two days on a legal officer in the North Caucasus, police said Thursday.
Gerikhan Khazbiyev, the prosecutor in the Republic of Ingushetia's largest city, Nazran, survived the attack at about 1:15 a.m. Moscow time (9:15 p.m. Wednesday GMT).
"Unidentified assailants threw an explosive device [presumed to be an F-1 grenade] into Khazbiyev's yard, which immediately exploded," the Russian Prosecutor's General Office said.
A similar device detonated seconds later near the gates of the compound, which investigators said had been soaked with an inflammable liquid, setting them ablaze.
"The prosecutor, his brother, relatives and neighbors hurried to put off the fire when two other explosions took place," the office said. "As a result Adam Khazbiyev was killed and another 11 people are being treated in the hospital for fragmentation wounds. Fortunately, the prosecutor was not injured."
Bitar Bitarov, the prosecutor in another regional republic, Daghestan, was fatally wounded Tuesday in a car bombing. The republic's interior minister, Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, survived an attempt on his life while on his way to the scene on the same day, though three policemen were killed.
The attacks came against the background of a campaign in the region to incite militants to surrender after Russia's terrorist number one, Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for the 2004 Beslan school massacre and other atrocities, was killed on July 10.
After Basayev's death, the Kremlin declared an amnesty until August 1 for militants to lay down their arms.
The National Anti-Terror Committee extended the term for the voluntary surrender for militants in the North Caucasus until September 30. But Chechnya's President Alu Alkhanov has requested that the federal authorities extend the amnesty deadline until January 1.
But the number of those willing to surrender has not been high. According to the NAC, 63 gunmen had surrendered by the end of July.
