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| An explosion aboard a bus in Russia's North Ossetia region has killed at least four people and hurt 10, local officials say. | An explosion aboard a bus in Russia's North Ossetia region has killed at least four people and hurt 10, local officials say. |
| The bus was travelling from the city of Pyatigorsk and had stopped a checkpoint bordering the Kabardino-Balkaria area when the explosion took place. | The bus was travelling from the city of Pyatigorsk and had stopped a checkpoint bordering the Kabardino-Balkaria area when the explosion took place. |
| "It looks like it was a bomb attack," a police official told AFP news agency. | "It looks like it was a bomb attack," a police official told AFP news agency. |
| Unrest linked to militants and criminal gangs is common in Russia's Caucacus republics bordering restive Chechnya. | |
| A school in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia was the scene of a siege by militants in 2004, that left more than 300 people dead, most of them children. | |
| Russians vote in parliamentary elections on 2 December. |