A female suicide bomber has struck the southern Russian region of Dagestan -- a predominantly Islam province -- injuring at least 18 and leaving one dead, the Euro News website reports today (May 26, 2013).
The device was detonated in the central square of the provincial capital, Makhachkala.
The attacker has been identified as Madina Alieva, widowed first in 2009 and again in 2012 when her husbands -- both radicals linked to the Islamist insurgency -- were killed by Russian security forces.
In Dagestan, women who carry out these kinds of suicide attacks after losing their husbands have been known as "Black Widows." The Islamist insurgency in the predominantly Muslim-populated North Caucasus region of Russia has grown more violent in recent years. Last week, another attack in the same town killed four and injured 44 others.
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