Police found an improvised explosive device, a gun and ammunition during searches of the homes of two people suspected of involvement in Wednesday's deadly blast in south Russia's Stavropol, a police source said on Thursday.
Six people were killed and more than 40 were injured in the blast, which occurred outside the city's House of Culture and Sport early on Wednesday evening ahead of a performance by a Chechen group. Police say the explosives used were the equivalent of 400 grams of TNT.
The police source told RIA Novosti that "an unregistered Makarov gun" as well "ten rounds of a variety of calibers and an improvised explosive device" had been found during Wednesday's raids on the homes of the two men.
The Stavropol Territory is the largest region in the North Caucasus Federal District, and hosts its administration, but has remained largely free of the violence in the neighboring republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.
Stavropol Territory Governor Valery Gayevsky said the terrorist attack was aimed at shattering national unity.
STAVROPOL, May 27 (RIA Novosti)
