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Bomb explodes on hood of police officer's car in Dagestan

18:21 22/11/2009

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A police officer was seriously wounded in the capital of the volatile Russian republic of Dagestan on Sunday as a bomb planted on the hood of his car exploded, police said.

"An explosion resounded at around 11:00 Moscow time near a riot police base in Makhachkala. A booby-trap mine on the hood of a car detonated when the car owner, a police officer, tried to remove it," a police spokesman said.

Militant attacks and clashes remain common in Russia's North Caucasus, even though the Kremlin campaign to fight separatists and terrorists in Chechnya has officially ended.

Violence often spills over into nearby republics, in particular Ingushetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria.

On Saturday, police killed a militant who tried to plant a roadside bomb in Dagestan's Buinaksk district. The militant opened fire and was shot dead by retaliation fire.

MAKHACHKALA, November 22 (RIA Novosti)

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