Two killed, 27 injured in Russia suicide blasts
AT least two police officers were killed today and 27 injured when twin suicide blasts tore through a village in Russia’s restless North Caucasus.
Police said the bloodshed began when a woman wearing a suicide belt walked up to an interior ministry post and blew herself up in the mountain village of Gubden.
She managed to walk past the security gate before being stopped. The subsequent blast killed one policeman and injured four others, Russian news agencies said.
Two hours later a car exploded after driving up to a police checkpoint in the same village, killing another policeman.
Reports said that blast was followed by a fierce exchange of gunfire between local interior ministry soldiers and suspected guerrillas.
“At least 27 people have been hospitalized. Most of them are interior ministry troops,” the RIA Novosti news agency quoted a police source as saying.