Car Bomb Injures Dagestan Regional-Government Minister, Kills His Driver

A car-bomb explosion in Dagestan, southern Russia, injured a regional-government minister and killed his driver, the Prosecutor General’s Office said.

Bekmurza Bekmurzayev, the minister for national policy, religious and external affairs, and two people accompanying him were taken to a hospital after the blast, the office’s Investigative Committee said on its website today.

An explosive device placed under Bekmurzayev’s official car was set off at about 9 a.m. local time today when the car was being driven away from the minister’s house in the regional capital, Makhachkala, the committee said. A criminal case has been opened, it said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Anna Shiryaevskaya in Moscow at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.net

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