Successive suicide blasts in Russia kill more than 30

IOC President Thomas Bach expressed full confidence yesterday that Russian authorities will deliver a “safe and secure” Winter Olympics in Sochi despite the two deadly suicide bombings in southern Russia that heightened concerns about the terrorist threat to the Games.

The International Olympic Committee said Bach wrote to President Vladimir Putin to offer his condolences following the attacks on Sunday and yesterday that killed more than 30 people in Volgograd.

A suicide bomber killed 14 people aboard an electric bus during yesterday’s morning rush hour, a day after a bomb blast killed at least 17 people at the city’s main railway station.