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Ingushetia leader gets improved armored car after June attempt

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Ingushetia's leader will have an improved armored car, when he is back to work after treatment in Moscow after an attempt on his life in June, the press secretary of the south Russian region's leader said on Saturday.

MOSCOW, August 15 (RIA Novosti) - Ingushetia's leader will have an improved armored car, when he is back to work after treatment in Moscow after an attempt on his life in June, the press secretary of the south Russian region's leader said on Saturday.

Speaking on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Kaloi Akhilgov said a Mercedes and three other armored all-terrain vehicles had been ordered by Moscow and delivered to Ingushetia on Friday.

"Unlike the previous cars, these vehicles' armor can resist an explosion similar to one that went off on June 22, with passengers to sustain the smallest possible damage," he said.

President Yunuk-Bek Yevkurov was discharged from a top Moscow clinic earlier this week and is due to return home by the end of August after a rehabilitation course. He underwent a series of operations after sustaining head and internal injuries when a car bomb exploded as his motorcade passed by on June 22.

Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus regions have seen a rise in violence in recent months. Attacks on police, officials and troops have been reported almost daily in Ingushetia and Dagestan that border Chechnya, which saw two separatist wars in the late 1990s-early 2000s.

A series of high-profile killings in Ingushetia, Dagestan and Chechnya followed the attack on Yevkurov. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the murders and assassination attempts aimed to destabilize the region.

 

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