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Bomber blows up taxi in southern Russia

Other News Materials 23 October 2007 15:22 (UTC +04:00)

( AP ) - A suicide bomber blew up a taxi in Russia's Dagestan region Tuesday, killing herself and wounding five others, police officials said.

A regional police spokesman said the explosive device was attached to the woman's belt and detonated when the door to the taxi - a minibus seating several passengers - closed.

It was not clear whether the blast was accidental, or if the minibus had been the bomber's target.

The blast occurred as the bus was several hundred yards from a police station in the Kazbek district. The minibus had been traveling from Khasavurt to Dylym, the spokesman said

Dagestan, a southern region near the Caucasus Mountains, is plagued by violence connected with criminal activities and with insurgent activity that has spread from neighboring Chechnya.

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