A Russian court on Friday convicted four Dagestani natives to imprisonment for aiding the terrorists behind two suicide bombings that rocked the southern city of Volgograd with 34 deaths last year, The Moscow Times reports.
Alautdin Dadayev and Ibragim Mamedov, both Volgograd locals, were convicted to 19 years in a maximum security prison on charges of terrorism and participation in an illegal armed group by a Volgograd court on Friday, Interfax news agency reported.
Brothers Magomed and Tagir Batirov, also residents of Volgograd, got away with a sentence of three years and 10 months each for aiding an illegal armed group, the report said.
The bombings on a trolleybus and the city's central train station on December 29-30 last year sparked widespread fears Russian authorities would not be able to guarantee safety at the Winter Games in Sochi — just 700 kilometers away — and led to a mass anti-terrorist operation with hundreds of people being detained.
4 men given prison sentence for role in Volgograd bombings
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