Police Officer Wounded in Ingushetia Suicide Bombing

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One police officer was wounded early Friday when a suspected militant blew himself up near law enforcers in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, regional law enforcement agencies reported.

MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - One police officer was wounded early Friday when a suspected militant blew himself up near law enforcers in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, regional law enforcement agencies reported.

“According to available information, a suicide bomber blew himself up near Interior Ministry officers at about 07:10 a.m. Moscow Time in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia’s Sunzhensky District [bordering on Chechnya],” a law enforcement spokesman told RIA Novosti.

An investigation is underway.

The Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to the republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years. Attacks on security forces, police and civilians are reported regularly in the neighboring republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

 

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