Moscow, April 12 .- The Committee for State Security (KGB) of Belarus have arrested several suspects of involvement in the brutal bomb attack on Monday in Minsk metro has left in shock at the last dictatorship Europe. "It was like a cold shower. I was on the next train and when we pass by the station platform where the explosion took place thought I was in Israel and Russia.
It was unreal. In Belarus these things do not happen," said Efe Yaroslav Romanchuk, opposition politician and former presidential candidate. According to the head of the KGB, Vadim Zaitsev, three people have been arrested and are being questioned for possible involvement in the blast, which killed 12 people and wounded nearly a hundred serious and moderately serious.
"As suspected, contained a single person. Do not rule out the version that has not been ruled (...), accomplices to be a mercenary. Is a man of up to 27 years, very robust constitution," he said. "It has not been arrested", he added Zaitsev, who was unable to confirm whether the suspect is of Caucasian appearance, as noted by the press of Belarus, or Arabic.
According to the sketch of the suspect who was released by the local digital media, the attack may have been committed by terrorists norcaucásicos. "Everything points to the track Caucasian. The sketch of the man is Caucasian appearance," said a freelance journalist from Minsk. To this is added that bomb experts quoted by Russian news agencies suggested that the black hand of Islamist terrorists of the Russian North Caucasus could be behind the blast in Minsk.
The KGB, which offered a generous reward to anyone who provide details about the attack, three versions of the attack deck: destabilization attempt, an anarchist group and a mentally ill man who acted alone. "That some do not like the system in Belarusian society living is a fact. Is an attempt to incite fear, panic and anger over the security forces, ie the power," Zaitsev said .
He also mentioned certain anarchist groups linked to opposition youth who took part in the violent riots that followed the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko in elections last December 19. The KGB chief also welcomed the anti-terrorist experts, criminologists and doctors sent from Russia and Israel.
The deputy prosecutor, Andrei Shved, investigating the explosion at rush hour in the central station "Oktiabrskaya", not far from the residence of Lukashenko has ruled that it was caused by a "suicide bomber." "For the first time we ran into this terrorist phenomenon. In all probability it was a radio-activated device.
The pump took shrapnel, as steel balls, pieces of metal and nails," he said. Shved, who stressed that the bomb had a power equivalent to not less than 3 kilos of TNT, also stressed that, so far, nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, but noted that "the objective is clear: instability in the country." As for those killed in the attack, Shved explained that "once died instantly and another died in hospital, while 151 people are still admitted in hospitals in Minsk, 40 of them in serious condition and 58 of medium severity.
For his part, Alexander Milinkevich Belarussian veteran politician today denied any involvement of the marginalized the democratic opposition in the attack. "The opposition does not use radical methods," Milinkevich told a Russian radio station Echo of Moscow. " Milinkevich believes that the perpetrators may be groups who want to destabilize the country or exacerbate their isolation from the European Union did not rule out the attack serves to reinforce the power of Lukashenko, considered Europe's last dictator.
The economist Yaroslav Romanchuk, Belarusian presidential candidate in the disputed elections last December, also questioned the involvement of opposition. "It's a high price to pay just to get credits for a political platform," he told Efe by telephone. Romanchuk called authorities to conduct a "transparent" leaves no room for doubt about the authorship of the attack, is the work of terrorists, radical groups or state structures.
Belarus, the last planned economy of Europe and the country that has best preserved the Soviet lifestyle, was considered, unlike in neighboring Russia, an island of stability immune to yesterday at the scourge of terrorism. 
It was unreal. In Belarus these things do not happen," said Efe Yaroslav Romanchuk, opposition politician and former presidential candidate. According to the head of the KGB, Vadim Zaitsev, three people have been arrested and are being questioned for possible involvement in the blast, which killed 12 people and wounded nearly a hundred serious and moderately serious.
"As suspected, contained a single person. Do not rule out the version that has not been ruled (...), accomplices to be a mercenary. Is a man of up to 27 years, very robust constitution," he said. "It has not been arrested", he added Zaitsev, who was unable to confirm whether the suspect is of Caucasian appearance, as noted by the press of Belarus, or Arabic.
According to the sketch of the suspect who was released by the local digital media, the attack may have been committed by terrorists norcaucásicos. "Everything points to the track Caucasian. The sketch of the man is Caucasian appearance," said a freelance journalist from Minsk. To this is added that bomb experts quoted by Russian news agencies suggested that the black hand of Islamist terrorists of the Russian North Caucasus could be behind the blast in Minsk.
The KGB, which offered a generous reward to anyone who provide details about the attack, three versions of the attack deck: destabilization attempt, an anarchist group and a mentally ill man who acted alone. "That some do not like the system in Belarusian society living is a fact. Is an attempt to incite fear, panic and anger over the security forces, ie the power," Zaitsev said .
He also mentioned certain anarchist groups linked to opposition youth who took part in the violent riots that followed the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko in elections last December 19. The KGB chief also welcomed the anti-terrorist experts, criminologists and doctors sent from Russia and Israel.
The deputy prosecutor, Andrei Shved, investigating the explosion at rush hour in the central station "Oktiabrskaya", not far from the residence of Lukashenko has ruled that it was caused by a "suicide bomber." "For the first time we ran into this terrorist phenomenon. In all probability it was a radio-activated device.
The pump took shrapnel, as steel balls, pieces of metal and nails," he said. Shved, who stressed that the bomb had a power equivalent to not less than 3 kilos of TNT, also stressed that, so far, nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, but noted that "the objective is clear: instability in the country." As for those killed in the attack, Shved explained that "once died instantly and another died in hospital, while 151 people are still admitted in hospitals in Minsk, 40 of them in serious condition and 58 of medium severity.
For his part, Alexander Milinkevich Belarussian veteran politician today denied any involvement of the marginalized the democratic opposition in the attack. "The opposition does not use radical methods," Milinkevich told a Russian radio station Echo of Moscow. " Milinkevich believes that the perpetrators may be groups who want to destabilize the country or exacerbate their isolation from the European Union did not rule out the attack serves to reinforce the power of Lukashenko, considered Europe's last dictator.
The economist Yaroslav Romanchuk, Belarusian presidential candidate in the disputed elections last December, also questioned the involvement of opposition. "It's a high price to pay just to get credits for a political platform," he told Efe by telephone. Romanchuk called authorities to conduct a "transparent" leaves no room for doubt about the authorship of the attack, is the work of terrorists, radical groups or state structures.
Belarus, the last planned economy of Europe and the country that has best preserved the Soviet lifestyle, was considered, unlike in neighboring Russia, an island of stability immune to yesterday at the scourge of terrorism.
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