Blast in Dagestan region of Russia kills four

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Moscow - A shrapnel-filled
bomb exploded near a police
station in Russia's troubled
Dagestan region on
Thursday, killing at least four
people and injuring 18 others,
officials said.

The bomb was attached to a
motorcycle or scooter parked
near the police station in the
city of Khasavyurt, the press
service of the regional
Interior Ministry said. The
blast killed two police officers
and two passersby - a
woman and a 5-year-girl, the
ministry said.

Dagestan's Interior Minister Adilgirei Magomed-Tagirov said he believed
the attack was carried out by militant Muslims in Dagestan and the
neigbhouring republic of Chechnya.

Among the dead was the head of a city police branch that provides security
to private companies and state-run enterprises. The other police officer was
a member of a squad that fights organized crime.

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