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"Russia: Suicide car bomb at city's central market kills at least 17, wounds 133 in northern Caucasus" SNIPPET: "The attacker detonated his explosives as he drove by the main entrance to the Vladikavkaz market, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry." SNIPPET: "The market and its surrounding blocks has been the target of several bomb attacks over the past dozen years, in which scores of people have died."

VLADIKAVKAZ - Blast in Vladikavkaz is declared terrorist act, Interior Ministry announced today. Suspects are already determined and Interior Ministry hopes to solve the crime in the nearest future. The explosives, estimated by specialists as five kilo trinitrotoluol equivalent, were placed in a Zhiguli car near a bank building. The bomb was controlled remotely by radio device. Two people were killed by the blast, woman, whose identity is to be established yet and a student of military academy, who was severely wounded and died later in hospital. Ten people were wounded, six of them are now in hospital. At the...

MARKET BLAST KILLS WOMAN A woman has been killed and 10 police cadets injured in a car bomb attack in southern Russia. The device exploded outside a bank in Vladikavkaz, ripping apart a number of vehicles. Police said it exploded as a truck carrying police cadets passed by and described it as "a terrorist act". "Ten people are injured, the driver of the truck and one of the cadets are in a very serious condition," said a spokesman. "One woman who was walking past was killed. "This is definitely a terrorist act, there were at least five kilos of explosive...

Car bomb explodes at central market in southern Russia VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) - A car bomb exploded Tuesday night in a parking lot in Vladikavkaz, a southern Russian city near the war-ravaged Chechen Republic, killing at least one person and wounding several. Heavy smoke filled the area as firefighters battled flames. The blast shattered glass in buildings near the lot, which was adjacent to a bank and about 200 yards from the city's central marketplace. Federal Security Service spokesman in Moscow said a woman pedestrian was killed and several soldiers who were passing by in a truck were hurt. The...

A car bomb has exploded at a market in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, according to reports. More follows...