Makhachkala: Russian police say they have identified the female suicide bomber who killed an influential Muslim leader in the volatile province of Dagestan. Said Afandi was a leader of a Sufi Muslim brotherhood whose followers include thousands of officials, clerics and businessmen.
The 85-year-old Afandi was killed on Tuesday along with six other people in the village of Chirkei by a bomber disguised as a pilgrim who visited his house. Police in Dagestan said today that the bomber was Aminat Kurbanova, a 30-year-old resident of Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala. (AP)
