The car blast that rocked the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on Saturday was not a terrorist act, deputy head of North Ossetia's Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
"A grenade has exploded, maybe as a result of reckless negligence," Soslan Sikoev said. The grenade was in a car, parked in a residential area in Vladikavkaz. Nobody has been affected.
The owner of the car is a serviceman who is currently doing military service in the city of Nazran.
The scene is currently cordoned off, policemen and rescue workers are working there, the source said. Engineers will determine the cause of the explosion.
The bombing is the latest in a series of terrorist attacks that have rocked the troubled North Caucasus in recent weeks. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a car near the city's central market on September 9; 17 people were killed in the attack.
VLADIKAVKAZ, September 11 (RIA Novosti)
