Deadly car bombing strikes Russia's Dagestan
A powerful car bomb exploded Monday at a police checkpoint in Russia's Dagestan republic, killing two officers and the car's driver and wounding 19 others, in what appears to have been a suicide attack, investigators said.
The attack was organized by militants who have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), said Rasul Temirbekov, spokesman for the Dagestani branch of the federal Investigative Committee.
The explosion, which was set off by two 122 mm shells, destroyed the Russian-made Lada Priori and four other vehicles parked at the police post near Derbent, he said. All that remained of the driver of the Lada were fragments of his head, hands and feet, the spokesman said.
Dagestan has been the center of an insurgency that spread across the Caucasus region after two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya. For more than a decade, Dagestan has seen bombings, attacks on police and kidnappings blamed on the militants.
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