Suicide bomber kills seven in Russia s Dagestan Fri 11 Dec 2020 at 16:15 International
NNA - A suicide bomber killed at least seven policemen and wounded another 20 people on Wednesday in Russia’s southern region of Dagestan by detonating a car packed with explosives at a traffic police depot.
Russia is fighting an escalating Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus and President Dmitry Medvedev says the upsurge of violence over recent months is the country’s single biggest domestic problem.
The suicide bomber tried to drive a Neva car packed with explosives into a traffic police depot at 7:55 a.m. local time (11:55 p.m. EST) on the outskirts of Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala, but was rammed by a police UAZ jeep