Suburban train traffic in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan has partially resumed after being halted since Sunday morning over a railway blast, a local railway official said on Monday, RIA Novosti reported.
A freight train loaded with grain was derailed by Sunday's explosion. A spokesman for the local Interior Ministry said there were no casualties in the blast.
This is the second blast at a railroad in Dagestan since the start of this month. Another freight train was derailed on July 2 by a blast on a railroad in Karabudakhkentsky district, near the republic's capital, Makhachkala. The train driver and his assistant were injured.
Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common in Russia's largely North Caucasus republics, especially Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia.