Ingush prime minister injured as explosions hit Russia

Ingushetia’s prime minister has reportedly been injured in an assassination attempt after two powerful explosions hit the city of Nazran in southern Russia.

The second-highest-ranking official in the mostly Muslim southern Russian region of Ingushetia was wounded in an assassination attempt today when two explosions hit the region’s main city, Nazran.

Fyodor Shcherbakov, an aide to the Kremlin envoy to the region, said Ingush prime minister Ibragim Malsagov had been wounded, but that his life was not in danger.