MOSCOW/MAKHACHKALA, May 1 (RIA Novosti) – Three people were killed Wednesday by a blast in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan after a group of local teenagers picked up a package loaded with explosives, local police said.
Two teenagers were killed on the spot, a police spokesman said.
The third victim was an adult man who died of injuries on the hospital bed, a law enforcement source said separately, without providing any details.
At least one more person was injured in the blast, which took place in the republican capital Makhachkala.
The bomb, equivalent to two kilograms of TNT, was left by the roadside near a market in the city’s center, police said.
Unidentified attackers pelted a police car with bullets hours earlier in the city of Buinaksk, 48 kilometers southwest of Makhachkala, killing three and injuring two. Police did not say whether it considered the attacks to be linked.
Dagestan became the main hotbed of the North Caucasus insurgency after the Islamic militants were forced out of neighboring Chechnya. Terrorist activity usually intensifies in the region between spring and fall, when weather conditions improve in the mountains.
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