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NAZRAN, Russia, May 31 (Reuters) - Bombs killed one policeman and wounded two in Ingushetia province in Russia's North Caucasus on Monday, May 31, police said.

One bomb exploded at a market in the town of Ordzhonikidze, wounding two police officers who were having lunch at a cafe, police said.

Russian news agencies cited security officials as saying the two police were hospitalised with severe injuries.

An hour later a bomb went off at a petrol station near the town of Malgobek, a police spokesman said. The blast severely wounded a policeman who had come to fill up his car and he died on the way to hospital.

Ingushetia borders Chechnya, the site of two wars pitting government forces against separatists since the 1991 Soviet collapse, and is beset by frequent attacks targeting law enforcement officers.
The Kremlin has vowed to crack down on militants in the North Caucasus and also to address poverty, corruption and abuse of authority that are fuelling the insurgency in the strip of predominantly Muslim provinces in southern Russia.