More unnecessary violence for you, and at least fifty people have been injured in Minsk, the capital of former Soviet state Belarus, after a bomb exploded during a concert there. The concert was taking place to celebrate the anniversary of the country's independence, and was staged in the cultural quarter of the capital. The country's rather controversial president, Alexander Lukashenko, was due to attend the event, and was on his way there as the bomb exploded. But a spokesman for the country's leader says he doesn't believe the bomb was targeted at the politician, and, with no group seemingly claiming responsibility for it, authorities are describing the attack as an act of "hooliganism".
Aug 7, 2007
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Fifty injured after bomb blast at Belarus concert
At least fifty people were injured by a bomb at a concert in Minsk, Belarus, held to mark independence day, though a government spokesman says the president was not the target.