A Chechen Islamist group today claimed responsibility for the November 27th train bomb that killed at least 26 people travelling on the Nevsky Express between Moscow and St Petersburg.
An Islamist group called the Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate, headed by Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov, carried out the attack, according to a letter from the group published today on Kavkazcenter.com, a website associated with Chechen separatists.
The letter was received December 1st, Kavkazcenter said.
"Attacks will continue until the occupiers in the Caucasus end their policy of killing ordinary Muslims purely on the basis of religion," the group said in the letter.
Investigators are searching for the bombers in Russia's worst terrorist attack outside the North Caucasus since 2004. At least 26 people died and more than 90 were injured when a bomb derailed a train on the country's busiest rail corridor.
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