Suicide Bombing Claimed 16 Lives In Russia

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Vladikavkaz, Russia, A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and injured 100 others Thursday in a market in the Caucasus, Russia, the most deadly guerrilla attacks for several months in the restive region. Officials said the explosion in the city of Vladikavkaz was caused by a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a local market with a car containing explosives package.

A headless body was later found after the explosion. Bombs filled with metal bolts and metal plates are blown up to slaughter a busy market just before lunch, made some damaged cars and broke windows of buildings nearby.

Half-naked bodies without heads lying on stretchers in the middle tool remnants of tomato and melon fruit stalls, when the people cried for their loved ones.

"A man without a head dudul do a car and I think he is a terrorist," said Zhanna Margiyeva, an office employee who went to the market at lunchtime, she said, tears bercucur.

"I cringe. Son I use public transport every day. This could happen to us anytime."

The officers warned the death toll could rise further because many people are injured in critical condition.

Attacks in the capital area the majority of Christian population in North Ossetia was the last attack that hit the Russian Caucasus. This area is also plagued by Islamic guerrillas who claim to have killed several people in a few months ago.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to "do anything to catch the people who were behind the bombing.

"We will do anything to catch these monsters ... these criminals, who perform terrorist acts against ordinary people," said Medvedev.

"We will do everything to catch and punish them," he asserted.

The number of victims rose to 16 after a 18-month-old baby died of his injuries, according to hospital sources told AFP.

Three-year boy, his brother, also in intensive care.

Maria Gatsoyeva, a spokesman for investigators said nearly a hundred people suffer injuries.

"A terrorist suicide bomber in a car parked at the entrance to the central market in Vladikavkaz allegedly exploded at 11:20 local time," approach the commission investigating the Russian prosecutor's office said in a statement.

"People who do this act, are men without conscience, without feeling," said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the first reaction of the bombing.

Gatsoyeva said the blast caused by explosives weighing 30-40 kilograms of TNT equivalent.

North Osetia region lies at the heart of Russia's turbulent North Caucasus, north of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia involving Moscow and Tbilisi in a war in August 2008.