12 October 2005 -- Police in the Russian region of Daghestan said today military engineers have defused a powerful explosive device in the regional capital Makhachkala.
Regional Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volkova said the device, packed with TNT with a grenade attached, was found around midnight not far from the regional training site for the Federal Security Service in Makhachkala.
Violence from war-torn Chechnya regularly spills over to neighboring Dagestan. In Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya to the east, a bomb exploded as a car carrying a federal communications officer and other military personnel was passing. No one was injured.
In Ingushetia's Malgobek district, an explosion hit a gas processing plant today, killing one person. Authorities said the blast appeared to be an accident.
(AP)
For more news about the North Caucasus, see RFE/RL's webpage News and Features on the North Caucasus
Violence from war-torn Chechnya regularly spills over to neighboring Dagestan. In Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya to the east, a bomb exploded as a car carrying a federal communications officer and other military personnel was passing. No one was injured.
In Ingushetia's Malgobek district, an explosion hit a gas processing plant today, killing one person. Authorities said the blast appeared to be an accident.
(AP)
For more news about the North Caucasus, see RFE/RL's webpage News and Features on the North Caucasus