A Federal Security Service (FSB) officer was seriously wounded by a car bombing in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, local police reported Saturday.Two children of the officer and two women were also injured when an explosive device was set off by unknown assailants beneath the VAZ-2110 car of the officer as he was driving off a private house in the town of Nartkala at around 23:45 Moscow time Friday (1945 GMT). All the five people have been hospitalized. A criminal investigation has been launched into the attack.
Last Saturday a total of six TV and radio broadcasting stations were attacked overnight at various districts of the republic, causing neither casualties nor disruption of normal operation of the stations.