 A passenger train was derailed by a bomb blast on a railway line on Saturday in Russia’s southern Dagestan, near the border with the rebel region of Chechnya, Interfax news agency said. Itar-Tass news agency quoted local transport officials as saying unknown gunmen fired on a car from the FSB security service, wounding one officer who was on his way to the blast site. He was taken a nearby to hospital. Itar-Tass said no one was injured or killed on the train accroding to preliminary information. Two carriages and the locomotive were derailed in the blast. RIA Novosti news agency quoted a local official as saying unknown people had planted an explosive device on the tracks and it had exploded as the train passed. |