Report Says Russian Police Searching For 'Possible Terrorist' In Sochi
U.S. news network CNN is reporting that Russian police in next month's Olympics host city, Sochi, have distributed fliers showing a woman they believe could be a terrorist and currently in the city.
The station says it obtained a copy of the flier "from security staff" at a hotel in the Black Sea resort city.
The 2014 Winter Olympics are slated to begin in less than three weeks' time, on February 7.
Fears of a spillover of violence from a North Caucasus insurgency against Moscow loom large over the games.
Russian officials have vowed the Sochi Games will be safe, but the United States has issued a "travel warning" over the potential for terrorism targeting the event.
The Sochi police flier asks employees for help in locating Ruzanna Ibragimova, whom it describes as "the widow of a member of a militant group from the Caucasus," according to CNN.
An Islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed at least 34 people last month in the Russian city of Volgograd.
In a video posted online, "Vilayat Daghestan" (Daghestan Province) also threatened to attack the Olympics.
Russian authorities, including Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov, have suggested on multiple occasions that Chechen militant Doku Umarov, who has claimed numerous terror attacks in the past and threatened to target the games, is dead.
The station says it obtained a copy of the flier "from security staff" at a hotel in the Black Sea resort city.
The 2014 Winter Olympics are slated to begin in less than three weeks' time, on February 7.
Fears of a spillover of violence from a North Caucasus insurgency against Moscow loom large over the games.
Russian officials have vowed the Sochi Games will be safe, but the United States has issued a "travel warning" over the potential for terrorism targeting the event.
The Sochi police flier asks employees for help in locating Ruzanna Ibragimova, whom it describes as "the widow of a member of a militant group from the Caucasus," according to CNN.
An Islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed at least 34 people last month in the Russian city of Volgograd.
In a video posted online, "Vilayat Daghestan" (Daghestan Province) also threatened to attack the Olympics.
Russian authorities, including Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov, have suggested on multiple occasions that Chechen militant Doku Umarov, who has claimed numerous terror attacks in the past and threatened to target the games, is dead.
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