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#1 Casualties in south Russia blast

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:56 pm
by frigidmagi
BBC
A car bomb has caused casualties in Nazran, the main town in Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia.

Russia's Itar-Tass news agency quoted local security officials as saying four people had been injured in the blast on Monday, including two policemen.

The blast occurred near a bank - Rinkombank.

Ingushetia, in the North Caucasus, has been plagued by violence for years. It borders on Chechnya, where separatist militants oppose Russian rule.
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