Suicide bombers kill 40 in Chechnya

TWO suicide bombers drove a truck full of explosives into a government complex in Russia’s rebel Chechnya yesterday.

The blast killed 40 people in the deadliest attack since the Kremlin's March poll to keep the region in its grip.

The blast in Znamenskoye, in the relatively peaceful north of the territory, wounded about 100 other people, seven weeks after a constitutional referendum that anchored the Muslim region firmly in Russia.