Six people have been killed and at least 50 injured after three car bombs exploded in the capital of the predominantly Muslim Dagestan region in Russia's North Caucasus, according to an interior ministry source and opposition fighters.
The first car detonated in Makhachkala on Wednesday at 7:30pm (15:30 GMT), killing at least four people and injuring five passers-by, the source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.
Two more car bombs exploded within metres of each other exploded after midnight, killing one police officer and a civilian, the source told the reporters.
The blasts occurred about 500 metres from the offices of Dagestan's interior ministry, a representative of Makhachkala police said.
"A police lieutenant died, and about 60 people went to the hospital," he said.
"The first blast was to attract attention, and the second was directed [at people] as the area was being closed off."
The second bomb was planted in a car and the blast was equivalent to about 35kg of TNT, he said.
The debris of two cars lay crumpled on a main thoroughfare where blood was pooled near a row of shattered and blackened stores and cafes, state TV showed.
The latest blasts followed an explosion in the same city late on Wednesday when three people were killed in a car while apparently transporting a bomb, wounding several bystanders.
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