Makhachkala bomb contained equivalent of 200 grams of TNT
MOSCOW. June 13 (Interfax) - An improvised explosive device that was detonated outside a computer shop in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan in Russia's North Caucasus, on Wednesday evening contained the equivalent of 200 grams of TNT, a city police spokesman told Interfax on Thursday.
"This improvised explosive device contained the equivalent of 200 grams of TNT," he said.
Several theories behind the incident are being investigated, including a possible business row, he said.
No one was killed or injured in the explosion that occurred at Gamzatov Avenue in the center of Makhachkala at around 9:50 p.m. on June 12.
In a separate development, policemen found a cache containing ammunition in the town of Kislovodsk in Russia's southern Stavropol territory, the regional police department said in a press release on Wednesday.
"Officers of the Counter-Extremism Center came across a cache containing ammunition during a search operation near a disused building on the premises of the Kaskad holiday hotel in Kislovodsk," it said.
Forty-three cartridges, two grenades, belts, radio receivers and other military equipment and uniforms were confiscated from it, according to the press release.
The cache apparently belonged to the Khasavyurt district's militant leader, who was killed during a security operation in Dagestan in February 2013.
The confiscated items were forwarded to Kislovodsk's center of criminology for examination, it said.
