Russia blasts: IOC 'confident' Olympics will be safe
December 31, 2013  00:41

The International Olympic Committee president says he has confidence that Russian authorities will deliver a "safe and secure" Games in Sochi. Thomas Bach wrote to President Vladimir Putin to express condolences for the "despicable" attacks that struck Volgograd within 24 hours.

 

Investigators say the attacks on a railway station and trolleybus, which killed at least 31 people, were linked. They struck just over a month before the Winter Olympics begin. Volgograd was also targeted in October, when a suspected female suicide bomber killed six people in an attack on a bus.

 

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