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Russia Explosion Kills 1, Wounds 5
A bomb exploded in a pile of garbage in the capital of the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Friday, killing a serviceman and wounding five others who had been searching for explosives, police said. A truck bearing an engineering unit had been sent to the site on a street leading to the base where it is stationed, said Ilyamin Magomedov, head of the Kirov district police department in the capital, Makhachkala. After they got out of the truck and started their search, the bomb went off, he said. News agencies had earlier reported various casualty tolls. The RIA-Novosti and Interfax news agencies quoted medical officials as saying that one soldier had been killed and six wounded. The ITAR-Tass news agency, citing preliminary information from the Dagestani Interior Ministry, said two servicemen had been killed and three others wounded. Later, it said the Interior Ministry had corrected its toll to six servicemen and one civilian wounded, but none killed. RIA-Novosti said the blast occurred near a trolley bus terminus in the capital, Makhachkala. Police tried to follow those who allegedly placed the bomb, but the suspects opened fire on them and escaped, Magomedov said. An ethnically mixed, mostly Muslim region adjacent to Chechnya in southern Russia, Dagestan has been hit by frequent bombings and other attacks in the past year, most of them targeting police and other law enforcement authorities. Posted by: Steve 2005-09-02 |
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