MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The Interior Ministry says a female suicide bomber has struck a police checkpoint in Russia's volatile province of Dagestan, killing four police officers.
Vyacheslav Gasanov of the ministry’s regional branch says the attack occurred late on March 6 in the village of Karabudakhkent, 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of the provincial capital, Makhachkala.
He says that in a separate attack on March 6 in the town of Kaspiysk, two gunmen walked into a police precinct and opened fire, killing a police officer and wounding a local resident.
Dagestan and other provinces in Russia’s North Caucasus region have been plagued by near-daily attacks by Islamist insurgents, who have spread since two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya. There have been previous attacks by female suicide bombers in the region.
