Three blow themselves up at police station in Russia

Three men blew themselves up outside a rural police station in southern Russia after trying to gain entry to the building as part of an unsuccessful attack.

The attack took place in Novoselitskoe, a village in Russia’s Stavropol region close to the volatile North Caucasus area, where Islamist militants intent on carving out a breakaway caliphate have targeted police officers in a series of car bombings and shootings.

“As a result of the blasts the police station and some cars nearby suffered some damage,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement.