Six die as gunmen storm parliament in Chechnya

ISLAMIC insurgents including a suicide bomber stormed Chechnya’s parliament, leaving six people dead and 17 injured in one of the most brazen attacks on the provincial capital in months, officials said.

Ten years after the latest separatist war in the volatile region in southern Russia and after a decade of roundups and disappearances of Islamic suspects, it appears that Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed administration still can’t stop separatists from trying to blow up parliament.

Yesterday’s attack left a grim scene around the parliament building, with body parts and a decapitated corpse lying on the ground near shattered window glass.