Suicide bombers left carnage in their wake killing 42 people and injuring hundreds more after striking at Ataturk Airport on Tuesday night.

Now it is claimed the man believed to have orchestrated the attack, Chechen national Ahmed Chataev, had been granted refugee status in Austria enabling him to dodge extradition to Russia where he was wanted in connection with terrorism offences.

Chataev, a Russian citizen, is understood to have joined the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2015 after fleeing to Syria.

Chataev lost an arm while fighting against Russia in the second Chechen war between 1999 and 2000 and Russian media reported that he had been on the superpower’s ‘most wanted’ list since 2003 for for sponsoring terrorism, recruiting extremists and membership of a terrorist group.

However, that same year he was granted asylum in Austria after claiming he had been tortured in Russia and had lost his arm.

The charity Amnesty International also encouraged Ukrainian authorities to halt extradition amid fears he “could face an unfair trial and would be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment”.

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