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By Vladimir Radyuhin
Five days after a double suicide bombing at a rock concert in Moscow killed 15 and wounded 60, a woman carrying an explosive device on her waist was arrested near the centre of the Russian capital. The woman was detained as she tried to enter a packed cafe in Tverskaya Street, a mile from the Kremlin, on Wednesday night. Security guards led the woman out of the popular Imbir (Ginger) cafe and ordered her to put her waist-strapped bag to the ground after her nervous behaviour and fidgeting with the bag caught the guards' attention. Police called to the spot tried to defuse the bomb containing between 500 grams to 2 kg of explosives with the help of a water canon, but later what was left of the device detonated, killing a security officer as he approached. Experts said the bomb filled with metal balls was identical to those used by female suicide bombers in Saturday's attack in Moscow. The arrested woman was identified as Zarima Muzhikhoyeva (22), and police said she could belong to the same suicide squad. Some news agencies said police later detained a suspected male accomplice of the woman, who had accompanied her to the cafe. The Interior Ministry spokesman, Yuri Shuvalov, told the Interfax news agency that authorities had advance information of suicide attacks planned for the period between July 11 and July 20. He said today's explosion and Saturday's bombings could have been part of those attacks "because the time-frame was very close.'' The Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, said new attacks were possible, but no emergency would be clamped in the capital. Saturday's bombing was the biggest terrorist attack in Moscow since Chechen rebels seized about 800 people in a theatre last fall. Security forces stormed the theatre, killing all the rebels, but over 120 hostages died from the effects of a sleeping gas used prior to the storming.
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