Mourners paid their respects in Kadyrov’s native village of Tsentoroi, in the country’s south, where mourning ceremonies were expected to go on for three days after the explosion at Grozny stadium, which the Grozny emergency medical centre said killed a total of 24 people.
Russian authorities put the figure at six.
The assassination demonstrates to Moscow and the rest of the world that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that the Chechen war is over and that the area has been largely pacified is far from true.
