Death toll rises to 50 in suicide truck-bomb blast

The death toll in a suicide truck-bomb attack on a military hospital near Chechnya rose to 50 today, after rescuers pulled more bodies out of the wreckage.

There is no hope of finding more survivors, Lt. Col. Yuri Miroshnichenko, spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry’s southern Russian office in Rostov-on-Don, said.