A powerful car-bomb blast apparently set off by a suicide attacker killed a high-level police official, two of his bodyguards and four civilians in southern Russia’s Ingushetia region today.

Twelve people were killed and 22 injured when an explosion ripped through a two-storey military barracks in Russia’s troubled province of Chechnya.

A roadside bomb struck a car in the Chechen capital of Grozny today, killing one Russian and wounding at least three others, government officials said.