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                'Black Widow' Suicide Bomber Wounds 12 in Russia

   A female suicide bomber blew herself up in southern Russia`s restive
   Dagestan Saturday, wounding at least 12 people.
   Police say the bomber detonated her explosives in the central square in
   Makhachkala, Dagestan`s capital. At least two of the wounded are in
   critical condition.
   Police reportedly have identified the bomber as 25-year-old Madina
   Alieva, a widow of two slain Islamists. Islamic militants are believed
   to advise fighters` widows that they can be reunited with their
   husbands by carrying out a suicide attack. Such bombers are known as
   "black widow" attackers.
   Two other bombings in Makhachkala earlier this week killed four people
   and wounded at least 40 others.
   Dagestan borders Chechnya and has seen many violent confrontations
   between radical Islamist fighters and Russian federal forces in recent
   years. The small republic in the turbulent region north of the Caucasus
   Mountains was visited last year one of the bombers accused of the
   terror attack in the United States last month that maimed and killed
   runners and spectators at the Boston Marathon.
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