MAKHACHKALA, August 8 (RIA Novosti) - A prosecutor in southern Russia has been seriously injured in what is believed to have been a car bombing attack, police said Tuesday.
Bitar Bitarov, the prosecutor in the town of Buinaksk in the turbulent North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, was injured when an explosive device planted on a roadside detonated as his car was passing.
"The car of city prosecutor Bitar Bitarov has been blown up," a police official said. "He has been hospitalized in serious condition."
Daghestan, which borders on Chechnya, has had a troubled history in the last few years and Bitarov is the chief legal officer in a town which itself saw a horrific apartment-block bombing in 1999 that killed 64 people.
