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| Series of bombs kills 1, injures at least 60 in Dagestan |
| 2011-09-22 |
| A series of attacks against police hit Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Thursday, killing several officers and injuring dozens more. Someone set off a bomb equivalent to about 3 kilograms of TNT shortly after midnight near the police headquarters in the regional capital of Makhachkala. No one was hurt, according to the local police department's website. Fifteen minutes later, after investigators had arrived at the scene, a more powerful car bomb went off, killing a police officer. It injured 39 people, including 32 officers. The police website said that the second bomb had the power of 35-40 kilograms of TNT. The Russian Interior Ministry's website said that the blast killed one police officer and wounded 60 people, including 44 officers. "Shops and residential buildings in the epicenter of the explosion were either damaged or completely destroyed," it said. Also on Thursday morning, attackers in a car shot at the district police chief in the Dagestani city of Buinaksk. Col. Magomednabi Adilkhanov was not injured, but two of his bodyguards were killed. A day before the attack on the police chief, three men died in a car explosion in Makhachkala. Police said the initial investigation suggests they had mishandled a bomb during while transporting it. |
| Posted by:ryuge |