MAGAS, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - A police officer was killed and five law enforcers were injured as two landmines exploded in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia on Tuesday, regional law enforcement agencies reported.
The first explosion occurred in the Sunzhensky District, which borders on another North Caucasus republic, Chechnya, at about midday. The blast left three Russian Defense Ministry servicemen wounded.
When police officers arrived at the scene to inspect it, another landmine detonated, injuring three Interior Ministry officers. One of them, a deputy chief of Ingushetia's riot police, later died of his injuries in a hospital.
Ingush health officials said two seriously wounded police officers would be transported to Moscow for treatment.
The Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to the republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years. Attacks on security forces, police and civilians are reported regularly in the neighboring republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
Over a decade after the war against Islamist separatists in Chechnya ended, Russian security forces continue to fight militants in the volatile region.
