A powerful car bomb exploded Monday at a police checkpoint in Russia's Dagestan republic, killing two officers and the car's driver and wounding 19 others, in what appears to have been a suicide attack.
The explosion, which was set off by two 122 mm shells, destroyed the Russian-made Lada Priori and four other vehicles parked at the police post near Derbent.
It is believed to be a terrorist attack because the driver of the Lada stopped at the checkpoint on his own initiative, Temirbekov said. All that remained of the driver were fragments of his head, hands and feet, he said.
Dagestan has been the center of an Islamic insurgency that spread across the Caucasus region after two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya. For more than a decade, Dagestan has seen bombings, attacks on police and kidnappings blamed on the Islamic militants.
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