ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 2 (RIA Novosti) - A homemade
explosive device went off near the home of an Ingush official,
a police source in the southern Russian republic said on Monday.
The explosion occurred late on Sunday, in the village of
Ikazhevo near Ingushetia's largest city, Nazran. The bomb had
been planted in the yard of a house, belonging to Husein
Sakalov, an aide to the Nazran prosecutor and son of the
speaker of the republic's parliament.
No casualties have been reported. The house was slightly
damaged.
Investigators are working at the scene.
Ingushetia has seen a rise in violence of late, including
bombings and other attacks on police and officials, which have
been linked to separatists in neighboring Chechnya and local
criminal gangs.
On February 24 a senior aide to Ingushetia's chief
prosecutor was killed and his wife injured when a gunman opened
fire on his car.
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