Bomb blast kills three near Chechnya
The explosion shattered all the windows in the Ingushetia regional headquarters of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, ripping part of the roof open and leaving the three-story building severely damaged but still standing. Overturned cars lay crumpled in a pile near the charred FSB building in Ingushetia's capital, Magas. An Associated Press reporter saw at least one dead body inside one of the cars.
The force of the blast was so great, said Muslim Dudarov, a man who works in a nearby building, that he was thrown out of his office and into the building's lobby. He said that numerous people were hit by flying glass. The ITAR-Tass news agency reported that there were as many as 100 people in the building at the time of the blast. Accounts differed as to whether the truck had been driven by a suicide bomber or parked outside the building. Russia has been wracked in recent months by bombings, most of which the government has blamed on Chechens.
