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Caucasus suicide bomb kills at least one policeman
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August 17, 2010, Tuesday
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A suicide bomber killed at least one police officer and injured three others near a police post in North Ossetia province in Russia's Caucasus today, authorities said.
The attacker blew himself up after approaching a checkpoint on a road near the border with Ingushetia province, a North Ossetian police official said.
He said one officer was killed. A duty officer at the regional Investigative Committee, a branch of the prosecutor's office, said two police died.
The attack was in North Ossetia's Prigorodny district, the site of a territorial dispute between ethnic Ossetians and Ingush that erupted into fighting in 1992 and remains a source of tension.
Predominantly Orthodox Christian North Ossetia has also been the site of attacks by Islamic militants whose violent campaign against Russian authorities stems from the 1990s separatist wars in Chechnya. Many are based in the Muslim Russian republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
Beslan, where Islamist militants seized a school in a 2004 attack that led to more than 330 deaths, more than half of them of children, is in North Ossetia.
The attacker blew himself up after approaching a checkpoint on a road near the border with Ingushetia province, a North Ossetian police official said.
He said one officer was killed. A duty officer at the regional Investigative Committee, a branch of the prosecutor's office, said two police died.
The attack was in North Ossetia's Prigorodny district, the site of a territorial dispute between ethnic Ossetians and Ingush that erupted into fighting in 1992 and remains a source of tension.
Predominantly Orthodox Christian North Ossetia has also been the site of attacks by Islamic militants whose violent campaign against Russian authorities stems from the 1990s separatist wars in Chechnya. Many are based in the Muslim Russian republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
Beslan, where Islamist militants seized a school in a 2004 attack that led to more than 330 deaths, more than half of them of children, is in North Ossetia.
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