Suicide Bombers On Bicycles Kill 4 Police In Chechnya

And the saga continues...islamic terror in Chechnya and all of the North Caucasus region of Russia keeps rolling on at a hellbent pace. This story is from The New York Times (cough, gag):

Suicide Bombers Kill 4 Police Officers in Chechnya

MOSCOW — Suicide bombers on bicycles killed at least four police officers in separate attacks in Chechnya’s capital on Friday, officials said, capping off a week of violence in Russia’s North Caucasus region that has left dozens of people dead, most of them law enforcement officials.

At least two bombers approached police officials in different parts of Grozny, the capital, and detonated their charges in what appeared to be coordinated attacks, the investigative wing of the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement.
Friday’s attacks come just days after a suicide truck bombing at a police headquarters in Ingushetia, a neighboring North Caucasus republic. The blast killed at least 25 people and wounded around 280, according to the most recent government figures, the Interfax news agency reported. In Ingushetia on Friday, a police officer was shot to death in his car.
After a lull in recent years, violence has grown more frequent in the North Caucasus, particularly in Chechnya, where federal forces fought two bloody wars to subdue a potent separatist movement. The bloodshed has spiked this summer, with almost daily attacks on police and government officials.
The constant killing has undermined the government’s once rosy depictions of the situation in the North Caucasus, a recalcitrant, predominantly Muslim region in Russia’s south. Now, even among top officials, there appears to be an increasing sense of unease.
“A short time ago, there was a growing impression that the situation in the Caucasus as regards terrorism, had substantially improved,” President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia said at a meeting of top law enforcement officials on Wednesday. “Unfortunately, recent events have shown that this is not so. If our work stops, we will begin to see more serious incidents.”
A spate of deadly suicide bombings, often carried out by the wives of dead Chechen fighters, gripped Chechnya and other parts of Russia, including Moscow, during the height of the second war in Chechnya five or six years ago. There was no immediate evidence that Friday’s bombers were women, and until recently the tactic had all but disappeared.
Then in late July, a suicide attack in Grozny killed six people, including four police officers who tried to stop the bomber from entering a theater.
Also on Friday, a Russian jihadist group said in a letter posted to a Chechen separatist Web site that it had used an antitank grenade to cause an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in Siberia on Monday. At least 30 people died in the accident, and some 45 are still missing.
The Russian government has dismissed the claims, saying that no evidence of explosives has been found at the accident site.