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| Explosion rips through Russia bus | Explosion rips through Russia bus |
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| An explosion aboard a bus in Russia's North Ossetia region has killed at least five people, including a nine-year-old girl, and hurt 12. | |
| The bus was travelling from the city of Pyatigorsk and had stopped on the border with the Kabardino-Balkaria region when the explosion took place. | |
| "It was an 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. | Unrest linked to militants and criminal gangs is common in Russia's Caucacus republics bordering restive Chechnya. |
| The blast was caused by a device containing over 300g of explosives and loaded with nails and scraps of metal, police sources told the Reuters news agency. | |
| As many as 19 people were on the bus, including two drivers, when the explosion took place. | |
| Russian prosecutors have begun investigating the blast as a terrorist attack, according to the Interfax news agency. | |
| 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. | 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, and authorities have warned of the possibility of terrorist attacks during the campaign. | |
| On October 31, a bomb on a bus in the southern Russian city of Togliatti killed 8 people and left 50 injured. |