Car bomb outside Russian bank injures six

A car bomb exploded outside a bank in southern Russia’s violence-plagued Ingushetia region today, injuring at least five people, authorities said.

A device exploded beneath a Mercedes parked on a central street in the regional capital, Nazran, the Ingush Interior Ministry and the regional emergency department said.

Six people were injured, the emergency agency said, while a police officer at the scene said five people were injured, four of them seriously, and that at least one was a police officer.

Ingushetia, a small region adjacent to war-scarred Chechnya in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus, is the site of frequent attacks targeting law enforcement authorities.