Ice hockey spectators, some waving the Russian flag, watch the women's preliminary round hockey game between Germany and Sweden at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games February 11, 2014. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - A militant Islamist group has urged followers to pray for an earthquake in Sochi during the Winter Olympics to avenge Muslims who died there fighting "Russian infidels".
The appeal was made by a local branch of the Caucasus Emirate, a group which is waging an insurgency for an Islamist state in Russia's North Caucasus and called on supporters last year to attack the Games.
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