A police officer was injured when an explosive device went off during a search operation in Chechnya, a police official in the volatile southern Russian republic said on Tuesday.
The explosion occurred in a wooded mountainous area in the republic's Vedeno district on Monday night, police said.
The Kremlin officially ended its anti-terrorism operation in Chechnya in April, but the mainly Muslim republic has continued to see almost daily blasts, skirmishes with gunmen or attacks on troops, police and other officials.
An upsurge of violence has also swept neighboring regions in Russia's North Caucasus.
Chechnya saw two brutal separatist wars in the 1990s and early 2000s.
MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti)
