A series of bomb blasts in Russia's Ingushetia region on Friday killed at least two people and wounded 33, including senior police officials, authorities said.
Many of the victims were police officers drawn to the scene by initial explosions, officials said, suggesting they were lured into a trap, a common tactic of insurgents in Ingushetia and neighbouring Chechnya.
The toll underscored the Kremlin's inability to rein in violence in the North Caucasus, scene of near-daily attacks blamed on Islamic militants.
President Dmitry Medvedev has called the violence in the heavily Muslim North Caucasus Russia's main domestic problem. It undermines the Kremlin's authority and its control over a vulnerable border area adjacent to the energy transport routes.
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