Car bomb blast kills seven in Russia

A powerful car-bomb blast apparently set off by a suicide attacker killed a high-level police official, two of his bodyguards and four civilians in southern Russia’s Ingushetia region today.

Ingushetia’s Deputy Interior Minister Dzhabrail Kostoyev was riding to work in an armoured car when a vehicle packed with explosives blocked a road on the outskirts of the region’s main city of Nazran and blew up, said regional police officials and a spokesman for the Interior Ministry branch in southern Russia.