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Bomb Hits Daghestan Power Station
August 04, 2005
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4 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- A bomb exploded at an electric-power substation in Russia's Republic of Daghestan today, but caused no deaths or injuries.
The Interior Ministry said the explosive device went off in the middle of the night at a substation near the town of Khasavyurt, which is close to the internal border with war-ravaged Chechnya.
The same substation came under fire from a grenade launcher late last month in what the head of the regional power company, who is also a Daghestan government official, called part of a failed plan to mount a series of terrorist attacks on Khasavyurt.
The blast at the substation came a day after authorities said they found and defused a bomb near a gas pipeline in another part of Daghestan.
The ethnically mixed, mostly Muslim, region in southern Russia has been hit by frequent bombings and other attacks in the past year.(AP)