20:00, 13 October 2009

Bortnikov: organizers of attempt on Evkurov are dead

Today, at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee, its chairman, director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov told about the course of investigation of the attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and about the war on militants in Northern Caucasus.

The "Caucasian Knot" reported that Mr Evkurov received heavy wounds in Ingushetia on June 22 in a terror act, when a terrorist-suicide bomber ran into his cortege in a car stuffed with explosive.

According to Mr Bortnikov, the organizers of the attempt on the President of Ingushetia, leaders of the Ingush Jama'at Dzortov and Aliev, were murdered, and the crime was solved, as reported by the ITAR-TASS.