October 05, 2004

Moscow police intercept car bomb, suspect beaten to death.

When I lived in Moscow, the cops would carry around these funky looking paddle things. It turns out these things were kind of like tazers, only you could get some swinging action into it. Now I see their usefulness. Mosnews:

Moscow police intercepted a car packed with explosives in central Moscow on Saturday and said they had thwarted a terrorist attack, Russian media reported.

Police found a 200-gram block of TNT, two anti-personnel landmines and a 20-liter canister with gasoline along with detonators and an electronic operating device in an old Lada....

Pumane died in hospital six hours after questioning. Initial reports said the man had suffered a heart attack, but shortly afterwards it was reported that he had bean beaten to death, apparently during the interrogation.

Ace and Six Meat Buffet both have interesting takes on the incident.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 09:06 AM | |