Blast kills 1, wounds 5 in Russia's Caucasus
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A powerful bomb tore through a crowd of commuters in Russia@@@s troubled Northern Caucasus on Friday, killing a woman and wounding five other people, officials said.The woman died in a hospital shortly after a bomb planted in a garbage bin exploded at a railway station in the town of Derbent in the violence-ridden province of Dagestan, regional transport police spokesman Akhmed Magomayev said. He said a police officer was among the wounded.Dagestan, along with other provinces of Russia@@@s Northern Caucasus region, is home to an active Islamist insurgency.Regarded as Russia@@@s most ethnically diverse republic, Dagestan lies between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. In recent years, it has been roiled by almost daily violence sometimes blamed on interethnic struggle.ByREUTERS06/08/2025 07:57 AMByREUTERS06/08/2025 05:36 AMByMAARIV06/07/2025 02:33 PMByWALLA!06/07/2025 11:18 AMByREUTERS06/07/2025 03:25 AM
