Sochi: UK officials warn terror attacks 'very likely'

[EddyTheDog]

Whitehall officials are warning that more terrorist attacks in Russia are "very likely to occur" in the run-up to or during the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Eighty-eight countries will compete in the Games which begin next week.

A threat assessment seen by the BBC names a Caucasus group, Imarat Kavkaz (IK), as posing the main danger - saying it has repeatedly expressed a desire to target them.

A twin bomb attack on the city of Volgograd in December killed 34 people.

It was claimed by a militant Islamist group, based in Dagestan.

The assessment points out that in July 2013 the IK's fugitive leader, Emir Doku Umarov, called on his followers to do what they can to disrupt the Games.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25907140

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