MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called Russia's deadliest bombings in three years an "abomination" as he visited the cite of two suicide strikes that killed 34 in the run-up to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

"The abomination of the crime that was committed here in Volgograd needs no extra commentary," Putin said during an unannounced visit to the industrial city of one million on the Volga River.

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