[ADN Kronos] Police defused a bomb found in a cemetery near the Dagestani town of Kizlyar the same day it was hit by two suicide attacks, an unidentified law enforcement source told Russian news agency RIA Novosti on Friday.The bomb was found on Wednesday on the outskirts of the village of Oguzer near Kizlyar, where 12 people, nine of them policemen, were killed in two suicide blasts were killed.
"...law enforcement officers found ... a homemade bomb made up of a 12-liter bucket filled with a mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder, as well as destructive elements such as metal nuts and screws," the source told RIA Novosti.
Wednesday's blasts came two days after deadly attacks on the Moscow metro killed 39 people and injured 85 others.
Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the blasts in a brief video posted on a rebel web site late Wednesday, following the bombings in Kizlyar.
Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal wars against separatists in Chechnya.