At least 20 people, including policemen, were killed and over 60 injured when a suicide bomber on Monday rammed an explosive-laden truck into the gates of a police station in a southern Russian city in the restive Ingushetia region, neighbouring Chechnya. "At about 09:08 am Moscow time (10.38 am IST), a yellow Gazelle truck broke through a gate at a check point near the building. A powerful explosion followed shortly after that," a local investigator was quoted as saying.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a police station on Monday killing two policemen and wounding 13 others in Russia's volatile Muslim-dominated north Caucasus region of Ingushetia, bordering insurgency-hit Chechnya.
Forty persons were hurt when suspected Chechen rebels rammed an explosive-laden truck into the regional headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Services in Ingushetia.
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