Suspect Held in Apartment Bombing

Police arrested a suspect in an apartment bombing that killed 64 people in the republic of Dagestan last year, the first of a series of attacks across Russia that helped bring about the war in Chechnya. An official in the Dagestani capital, Makhachkala, said that Isa Zainutdinov, 62, is suspected of being a “major perpetrator” of the bomb attack on an apartment building in Buynaksk. According to the spokesman, Zainutdinov admitted that he drove a truckload of explosives to the apartment block but claimed that he was unaware of its intended use. The Sept. 4 blast shattered an apartment block that housed military officers and their families. The attack was the first of four apartment bombings around Russia in September that left more than 300 people dead. Russia blamed Chechen rebels.