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Court sentences 4 men for roles in 2011 attack on Moscow airport

MOSCOW, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A court sentenced four men to prison, three getting life terms, Monday for their roles in a 2011 attack on a Moscow airport that killed 37 people and hurt 172.

Prosecutors said Bashir Khamkhoyev, Akhmed Yevloyev and brothers Islam and Ilez Yandiyev helped a suicide bomber -- Yevloyev's brother, Magomed -- by arranging his travel from Ingushetia and providing him with a bomb that exploded Jan. 24, 2011, in Domodedovo Airport's international arrivals hall, RIA Novosti reported.

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The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Khamkhoyev and the Yandiyev brothers to life in prison and Yevloyev to 10 years in a penal colony.

Doku Umarov, a leader of the Islamic insurgency in Russia's restive North Caucasus region, claimed responsibility for the attack.

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