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Two blasts kill 9 in south Russia's Dagestan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-31 15:45
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MOSCOW - Nine people, including two police officers, were killed in two blasts on Wednesday in the town of Kizlyar in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.

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"According to preliminary information, nine people were killed. Among them was the chief of local police, Vitaly Vedernikov," a local police source told the RIA Novosti news agency.

A policeman was killed on the spot and another one died on the way to hospital, the Itar-Tass quoted a source in the republic's Interior Ministry as saying.

"The car, which was driving 300 meters away from the republican Interior Ministry, the republican Federal Security Service department and gymnasium number one, was blasted at 08:30 amMoscow time (0430 GMT)on Wednesday. The second blast went off at 09:05 amMoscow time (0505 GMT). Two people were killed and five more were injured in the second blast," the source said.

A suicide bomber dressed as policeman was responsible for one of the blasts, the local police and investigators told the RIA Novosti.

Rescuers, firefighters and investigators were working at the blast site.

The blast came two days after two female suicide bombers killed 39 in attacks at the Moscow metro which the authorities have linked to militants from the North Caucasus.
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