21 killed in bomb explosion

Three simultaneous car bomb blasts killed at least 21 people and wounded more than 100 others today in southern Russia near the breakaway republic of Chechnya.

Nineteen people were killed and 85 were seriously wounded when a bomb exploded near the entrance of a farmers’ market in the city of Mineralnye Vody, said Colonel Alexander Lemeshev, the duty officer for the Emergency Situations Ministry in the northern Caucasus.