NAZRAN, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - Two servicemen were wounded when an explosive device detonated in Ingushetia, the Russian North Caucasus republic’s Interior Ministry reported Wednesday.
The unidentified device exploded at 16:30 Moscow Time (12:30 GMT) on Tuesday in the village of Alkun in the republic’s Sunzhensky District, which borders on another North Caucasus republic, Chechnya, the ministry’s spokesman Zhabrail Shaukhalov told RIA Novosti.
The servicemen received fragmentation wounds and were hospitalized. They are in satisfactory condition, Shaukhalov added.
An investigation is underway.
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.
