Suicide bomber kills at least 20 in hospital bombing

A SUICIDE bomber destroyed a Russian military hospital near Chechnya yesterday, killing at least 20 people.

"Ruins are all that remain of the hospital," said a military spokesman.

They four-storey red brick building was destroyed in the blast in the city of Mozdok in Russia's North Ossetia region, said the region's Emergency Situations Minister Boris Dzgoyev.