Car blast kills policeman in Russia’s Dagestan
A car explosion at a checkpoint in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan, has left one policeman dead and another wounded.
According to Dagestan Interior Ministry’s press service, the casualties came after a civilian vehicle went off at about 11:30 a.m. local time (0830 GMT) on Wednesday in the Tabasaransky district of Dagestan, during an unauthorized drive through the roadblock.
Fatina Ubaydatova, a police spokeswoman in Dagestan, also said that the incident happened "as police were trying to stop a car, the driver drove past and the car exploded.”
Ubaydatova further noted that the identity and fate of the people in the vehicle still remain unknown.
The blast came hours after a police officer was killed and two were injured when two vehicles were blown up by an explosive device on a main road near the Dagestan's city of Kaspiysk late Tuesday.
Ubaydatova said the type of the explosive device has not been established yet.
On Wednesday, the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s explosion.
The two incidents occurred some 100 kilometers (62 miles) apart.
In February, two police officers died and around a dozen civilians were hurt after assailants detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in the restive region.
Dagestan, a Muslim-dominated region in Russia’s southeast, has witnessed regular attacks since the end of two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya in the 1990s.
Dagestan has been a major breeding ground for terrorists who travel to Syria and Iraq to join the ranks of Daesh and other terrorist groups.
Last year, Daesh declared it had established a franchise in the North Caucasus.
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