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VLADIKAVKAZ, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - A car exploded Wednesday evening outside a hotel in the center of Vladikavkaz in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, wounding deputy city mayor Mairam Tamayev, a law enforcement official said.
"Tamayev has been hospitalized with a slight leg injury," Chermen Zangiyev, a senior aide to the head of a regional investigation committee department, said.
He said the car belonged to the deputy mayor.
Earlier, law enforcement agencies reported Tamayev had been unhurt in the explosion.
