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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) - Russian officials say two suicide bombings in the southern province of Dagestan have killed at least nine people including two policemen. The incident comes two days after a twin suicide bombing tore through the Moscow subway, killing 39. A regional Interior Ministry spokesman told The Associated Press that the blasts occurred Wednesday morning in the town of Kizlyar, near Dagestan's border with Chechnya. Police pulled over a suspicious-looking car, when the driver detonated explosives. As police officers and residents gathered at the scene there was a second blast. Rebels from the North Caucasus, which includes Dagestan...

A suicide bomber dressed as policeman is responsible for one of the blasts in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, local police and investigators said on Wednesday. At least nine people including the local police chief were killed and six others were injured in two explosions in the town of Kizlyar on Wednesday morning.