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12 Apr 2011 10:56

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World: Belarus authorities lacking leads in train-station bombing

  • issue Belarus suffered its first major post-Russia terror attack yesterday at a train station in Minsk. The bombing killed 12 and injured more than 150. President Alexander Lukashenko says authorities plan to “turn everything inside out” to catch the suspects.
  • confusion The problem baffling experts? They don’t know of any major ethnic or religious divides, and most of Lukashenko’s political opponents (he’s been in office 17 years) are under constant surveillance.  So they don’t really have an idea of any sort of motive. source