MAGAS, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who survived an assassination attempt in June, is to return to the North Caucasus republic, the president's press secretary said on Thursday.
"Yunus-Bek Yevkurov decided to interrupt his course of treatment. He is going to return to the republic and take up his presidential duties," Kaloy Akhilgov said.
The Ingush president underwent a series of operations after sustaining head and internal injuries when a car bomb exploded as his motorcade passed by on June 22. He was earlier reported to be planning to return to Ingushetia by the end of August.
On Monday, an attack by a suicide bomber on a police station in Ingushetia's largest city of Nazran claimed at least 24 lives and injured 136 people. The blast was the worst terrorist act in several years in the republic. However, attacks on federal forces and police are a regular occurrence in Ingushetia, as well as in neighboring Chechnya and nearby Dagestan.
