| TWENTY-one people were injured in two blasts that set ablaze a gas pipeline in Russia's southern region of Dagestan bordering breakaway Chechnya, a spokesman for the emergencies ministry's regional office told Interfax early today. The blasts, which occurred late yesterday, were the result of a terrorist attack according to a preliminary inquiry, the spokesman said. The pipeline caught fire, and the light could be seen from nearby regional capital Makhachkala. The fire was put out early today, the RIA Novosti news agency reported, quoting an official with the Kaspiigazprom company, which is responsible for the pipeline. |