One year on: Domodedovo probe complete

A year after the deadly Domodedovo attack, the investigation into the tragedy is complete, with four men charged. 37 people were killed and 173 injured in the blast carried out by a suicide bomber in the Moscow airport arrivals hall.

Russia’s Investigative Committee (IC) has announced the four people charged are members of an organized criminal group – the brothers Islam and Ilez Yandiyev, Ahmed Yevloyev and Bashir Khamkhoyev.The final indictment will be presented as soon as the defendants and their attorneys, as well as those affected by the attack have studied the case material, official IC spokesman Vladimir Markin says.

Earlier, the IC identified the suicide bomber as Magomed Yevloyev – a 20-year-old native of Russia’s republic of Ingushetia, trained by Islamist terrorists in the North Caucasus. Russia’s most wanted terrorist Doku Umarov has claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Altogether, around 30 militants, all affiliated with the Caucasus Emirate terrorist organization, have been linked to the attack. Seventeen of them were killed in special operations last year, and 4 have been detained. Doku Umarov himself, however, is still on the loose.

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