Suspected Chechnya gas blast kills six

An explosion ripped through a base of a special Defence Ministry security force in Russia’s troubled province of Chechnya today, killing at least six people and injuring another 13.

An official at the regional Emergency Situations in Rostov-on-Don said the cause of the blast in Kurchaloi, some 16 miles southeast of the Chechen capital Grozny was not yet known.