Police inspector killed in Ingushetia
NAZRAN. June 29 (Interfax) - A district police inspector was killed in the village of Psedakh in Ingushetia's Malgobek district early on Friday, a spokesman for the republic's top investigative agency told Interfax.
"A bomb was set off near the building of the village administration early on Friday. No one was hurt. When the district police inspector was leaving his home to travel to the scene he was gunned down by unidentified assailants. The policeman died of the wounds," he said.
The bombing near the administrative building had been plotted to provoke the police inspector's arrival at the scene, he also said.
The killing is being probed on counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement official, the spokesman said.
In another incident five local residents were injured when a bomb blew up outside a wine store in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia's Sunzha district at about 11 p.m. on Thursday, a source in local law enforcement services told Interfax on Friday.
The five injured victims were hospitalized.
"It was not the first bombing at a wine store in Ingushetia," the source said.
The situation remains tense in Dagestan, where the imam of the local mosque was attacked in the village of Karamakhi in the Buinaksk district early on Friday, a spokesman for the republic interior ministry told Interfax.
"Masked gunmen broke into the mosque at about midnight. They killed Imam Magomedkamil Gamzatov and a visitor, set the building on fire and fled in an stolen car," a ministry spokesman said.
Dagestan's top investigative agency has confirmed the attack. "The attack is under investigation," he said.
A 100-kilogram bomb has been discovered and defused in Dagestan's Tabasaran district in a second incident of its kind over the past 24 hours.
A 120-liter container filled with an explosive substance was found inside a car, discovered in a combing-up operation in a forest outside the village of Akka at about 5 p.m. Moscow time on Thursday, the Dagestan Interior Ministry told Interfax.
The deadly finding was equivalent to 100 kilograms of TNT, a ministry spokesman said.
Reports said earlier that security services defused a 100-kilogram bomb in Dagestan's Tabasaran district on Wednesday. It was found in the car that belonged to a criminal killed in a skirmish with police.
