Blast kills 7 Russian soldiers in South Ossetia
7 Russian soldiers killed when car explodes outside military headquarters in South Ossetia
MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI
AP News
Oct 03, 2008 15:57 EST
A car exploded Friday, killing seven soldiers outside Russia's military headquarters in South Ossetia, and Russian authorities charged it was a terrorist bombing meant to wreck the tense cease-fire that ended their war with Georgia.
Georgia's Interior Ministry blamed Russia, accusing it of arranging the blast to provide a pretext for delaying next week's scheduled withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgian territory around South Ossetia and another Kremlin-backed separatist region, Abkhazia.....
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