22 July 2009, 22:10
In Ingushetia, a shop selling alcohol was blown up
In Ingushetia, in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, today, at about 3:00 a.m., a shop that was selling alcohol beverages among other things was blown up. There were no victims, but the building was strongly damaged.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in Ingushetia shops and kiosks trading in spirits are shelled rather often. Thus, on March 25 in Nazran, an armed attack was made on a shop that also sold alcohol.
Today, in the course of examining the place of the incident, sappers found, in the Rabochaya Street, near the blown-up shop, a self-made explosive stuffed with strike elements. They destroyed it by blowing up in situ.
According to the investigation, the culprits planned to trigger the bomb, when militiamen would arrive to the place of the first explosion, the ITAR-TASS reports.
Isa Khamkhoev, head of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of Ingushetia, said earlier that attacks on the places, where alcohol is on sale, have to do with believers' religious feelings. Later he called his coreligionists to war on alcohol by means of sermon, not weapon.
Imam of one of Nazran mosques, with whom the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent had a talk, believes that the actions of those who set on fire or blow up such trading entities are quite reasonable. He is sure that it is done on religious motives: according to Islam, sale and use of alcohol is categorically forbidden. However, as he said, a prerequisite of such "execution" should be a prior warning of traders.
