6 killed, 5 wounded in Russia's North Caucasus

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Source: Associated Press

MAGAS, Russia (AP) — Roadside bombs and gunfire killed six people and wounded five in Russia's North Caucasus region, officials said Wednesday, as a provincial leader remained in critical condition from an earlier suicide attack.

The president of the province of Ingushetia, Yunus Bek Yevkurov, has been kept on an artificial respirator in a Moscow clinic since he was wounded in a suicide bombing Monday, but his life was not in immediate danger, said his spokesman, Kaloi Akhilgov.

Chechnya and Ingushetia share a border in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, where a separatist Islamic insurgency mounts daily attacks on police and other officials — an aftermath of two separatist wars in Chechnya over the last 15 years.

Chechnya's branch of the Russian Interior Ministry said a roadside bomb destroyed a car late Tuesday and killed two civilians it was carrying. Early Wednesday, five police were wounded by a bomb hidden amid roadside garbage, it said.

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