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    March 07, 2012

Suicide Bomber Kills 5 Policemen in Russia's Dagestan Region

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   Investigators pass a damaged police check point in the village of
   Karabudakhkent, 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of the provincial
   capital, Makhachkala, Russia, March 6, 2012.
   Photo: AP
   Investigators pass a damaged police check point in the village of
   Karabudakhkent, 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of the provincial
   capital, Makhachkala, Russia, March 6, 2012.

   A female suicide bomber killed five policemen late Tuesday at a
   checkpoint in Russia's troubled Dagestan region.
   Officials say the attack took place in the village of Karabudakhent.
   The official Itar-Tass news agency says police found the bomber's
   severed head close to the scene. No one has claimed responsibility for
   the attack.
   Dagestani police and authorities suffer from almost daily attacks from
   Muslim insurgents fighting to set up an Islamic state inside Russia's
   Caucasus region.

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