2006年VOA标准英语-Car Bomb Kills 7 in Ingushetia, Including

By Bill Gasperini
Moscow
17 May 2006

A Russian special forces officer guards the wreckage¹ of a car outside Nazran 17 May 2006   
  

A powerful car bomb killed a top police official in the southern Russian region of Ingushetia, in what authorities say could have been a suicide bombing (or by remote control).  The attack, in the region located next to the breakaway region of Chechnya, also killed six other people.

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Ingushetia's Deputy Interior Minister Dzhabrail Kostoyev was killed along with his two bodyguards² when the car parked on a roadside exploded near Ingushetia's main city of Nazran.
 
Four civilians³ also died when their car hit Kostoyev's armored vehicle, which police say was thrown about 20 meters by the explosion.
 
Russian television showed pictures of the blackened, mangled⁴ wreckage of several cars surrounded by debris⁵.
 
Several nearby buildings were also damaged by the force of the explosion, estimated to be about 50 kilograms of TNT.
 
Dmitry Kuralyov of the local prosecutor's office says personnel are conducting a thorough search of the wreckage from the incident that he called the work of terrorists.
 
Kostoyev was traveling in a convoy⁶ of three cars and had been under special guard after several previous attempts on his life.
 
Last August, he was injured when assailants detonated a remote-controlled land mine near his passing convoy.
 
Ingushetia has long been plagued by violence blamed on militants⁸ fighting the government of a region that borders war-torn Chechnya.
 
Law enforcement officials and buildings are often targeted; a major attack in Ingushetia two years ago killed 92 people.
 
Poverty, government corruption⁹ and instability blamed on the long-running war in Chechnya have fueled anger throughout the North Caucasus region, which is home to a patchwork¹⁰ of mostly Muslim peoples.
 
In another incident early Wednesday, police say unidentified gunmen killed a prison official in the republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessiya, which is located west of Ingushetia.
 
Shootings and bombings occur almost on a daily basis in Dagestan, located just to the east of Chechnya on the Caspian Sea.
 
Some analysts¹¹ say the increasing instability threatens to spiral out of control, especially as various rebel groups increasingly adopt militant⁷ Islam as their ideology¹².
 
Russian troops have been battling separatist rebels in Chechnya since 1994 in a conflict the Kremlin claims is now over, although daily attacks occur regularly there as well.

1 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

2 bodyguards   

n.保镖，卫士，警卫员( bodyguard的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Brooks came to Jim's office accompanied—like always—by his two bodyguards. 和往常一样，在两名保镖的陪同下，布鲁克斯去吉姆的办公室。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Three of his bodyguards were injured in the attack. 在这次袭击事件中，他有3名保镖受了伤。 来自辞典例句

3 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

4 mangled   

vt.乱砍（mangle的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• His hand was mangled in the machine. 他的手卷到机器里轧烂了。
• He was off work because he'd mangled his hand in a machine. 他没上班，因为他的手给机器严重压伤了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

6 convoy   

vt.护送，护卫，护航；n.护送；护送队

参考例句：

• The convoy was snowed up on the main road.护送队被大雪困在干路上了。
• Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.战舰将护送该船队过大西洋。

7 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

8 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

9 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

10 patchwork   

n.混杂物；拼缝物

参考例句：

• That proposal is nothing else other than a patchwork.那个建议只是一个大杂烩而已。
• She patched new cloth to the old coat,so It'seemed mere patchwork. 她把新布初到那件旧上衣上，所以那件衣服看上去就象拼凑起来的东西。

11 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。

12 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。