Man jailed for 14 years over Vladikavkaz bombing

A Russian court sentenced a man to 14 years in a high-security prison for organizing a September 2010 terrorist attack that killed 19 people in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, Russian Investigative Committee Spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports.

A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives at an entrance to a central market in Vladikavkaz, capital of the North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, on September 9, 2010. More than 230 people were injured in the blast.

Alikhan Ortskhanov, a member of the criminal gang that organized the attack, was also found guilty of carrying out other “grave and extremely grave crimes,” including attempts to kill police officers and illegal arms trafficking, Markin said.

The man was also ordered to pay 150,000 rubles in damage to the families of those killed and injured in the blast.