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15 hurt in Russian Caucasus supermarket blasts: police

MOSCOW : Two strong blasts tore through a supermarket in Russia's volatile Caucasus region of Dagestan, injuring 15 peop
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The first blast went off late Sunday and wounded a sales clerk, the regional interior ministry said in a statement. The second struck when a Russian security team arrived on the scene.

The ministry said 15 people including three children were hospitalised. Four of them were in a serious condition, a police spokesman in Dagestan told AFP.

Six servicemen also received medical attention at the scene.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

 

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