Blast derails Russian freight train: Reports

MOSCOW - A bomb exploded on a railway track in Russia's Dagestan province on Sunday, derailing a freight train days after suicide bombers killed 12 people in the region, Russian news agencies reported. Nobody was hurt.

The pre-dawn blast on a line leading from Moscow to the ex-Soviet republic of Azerbaijan caused eight carriages of a train carrying construction materials to derail, ITAR-Tass and Interfax reported, citing police and emergency officials.

Also Sunday, a handmade bomb was found near an Orthodox cemetery in Ingushetia on Sunday, but it did not explode.