(RFE/RL) 8 December 2005 -- Security officials in Daghestan say an explosion today has caused a cargo train to derail.
Law-enforcement authorities are investigating the incident.
Violence has increased in recent years in Daghestan, which shares a border with the republic of Chechnya, where separatist rebels have fought Russian rule for 11 years.
(ITAR-TASS/Interfax/Reuters)
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