MAKHACHKALA, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - A suicide bomber blew herself up and injured eight in a minibus taxi in the Kazbekovsky District of Daghestan, a republic in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, local police said on Tuesday.
Three of the injured were hospitalized, with another five receiving out-patient treatment.
The incident occurred a short distance from a police checkpoint at 11:20 a.m. local time (7:20 a.m. GMT).
A police spokesman said that the suicide bomber was "torn into small pieces" by her bomb.
