Six people killed in car blast at Russian base

A CAR exploded outside the Russian military’s headquarters in South Ossetia yesterday, killing six people and wounding four, the government of the Moscow-backed separatist region in Georgia said.

The blast came amid persistent tension following Russia’s war with Georgia over South Ossetia and its recognition of the breakaway republic as an independent nation.

The South Ossetian government said a car, that had been confiscated in an ethnic Georgian village after weapons were found in it, exploded near a building where leaders of the Russian peacekeeping force were located.