Suicide bombers carried out explosions in Russia’s Stavropol region, close to the North Caucasus, on Monday, according to the Interfax news agency, quoting a police source.
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A rural police station in southern Russian Federation has come under attack in what is suspected to be a suicide bombing, reports said Monday. The attackers used at least five explosive devices in the strike.
“An attack took place on a regional police station”, Reuters cited a spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Stavropol as saying.
Security forces had sealed off the area around the attack and were working to establish the attackers’ identities, Russia’s National Counter-terrorism Committee told Interfax. “We do not know yet how many people were killed in this attack”, an official said. “They were shooting at the building”, Natalya Tyncherova told AFP, adding that the exact number of assailants was still unclear.
Russia’s North Caucasus has been gripped by almost daily violence for years due to a simmering Islamist insurgency there but attacks in southern Russian Federation are extremely rare. “Was this a terrorist threat or gangsters?”
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Regional investigators declined immediate comment. Last December, the militant “Islamic State” group claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting in the popular tourist city of Derbent.
