Car bomb explodes near Russian military base in Chechnya; two wounded (AP) 4 June 2005
MOSCOW - A car bomb exploded on Saturday near a Russian military base in Chechnya, wounding two people, the Moscow-backed Chechen administration said.
The explosion occurred near the Russian military base in Khankala, just outside the Chechen capital, Grozny, the regional branch of Russia’s Interior Ministry said. It said the car bomb hit a passing car, wounding two people who were hospitalized with shrapnel injuries.<o:p></o:p>
The ITAR-Tass news agency said the car bomb went off when a vehicle belonging Selim Tsuyev, a top military official in Chechnya’s Moscow-backed administration, drove by. Tsuyev wasn’t in the vehicle, and the explosion wounded his guard and a soldier standing nearby.<o:p></o:p>
The Russian state Rossiya television has said earlier that the explosion targeted a military convoy leaving the base. It said the bomb contained 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of explosives and sent shrapnel flying for up to 500 meters (1,650 feet).<o:p></o:p>
Rossiya showed footage of a charred debris of a vehicle scattered on a roadside and investigators studying the site.<o:p></o:p>
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