Southern Russia Car Bomb Blast
September 1, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
MOSCOW: Police in Russia’s southern region of Dagestan say a driver stopped by traffic police has detonated explosives in his car, killing a passer-by and injuring several police.
Spokesman Mark Tolchinsky says the blast struck early Monday at a traffic checkpoint on the outskirts of Dagestan’s capital city, Makhachkala.
Tolchinsky told media that the police post was partly destroyed in the blast.
Dagestan’s Interior Minister Ali Magomedov says in stopping the car, the traffic police managed to avert a large-scale terrorist attack in Makhachkala.
Dagestan suffers such attacks frequently. The violence, which plagues a broader area within Russia’s North Caucasus, stems from two bloody wars in nearby Chechnya and is blamed on separatists.
Southern Russia Car Bomb Blast was first posted on September 1, 2009 at 2:11 pm.
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