Three people were killed and 11 injured in an explosion in a Chechen marketplace today, Interfax news agency has quoted the town's military command post as saying.
The blast took place in the central marketplace in Gudermes, Chechnya's second town, this afternoon. Interfax said a 10-year-old boy was among the injured.
The market is close to a Russian police barracks, but the spokesman at the military command post said it was too soon to speculate on the cause of the blast.
No one at the office of Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the Kremlin's chief spokesman on Chechnya, or at the Interior Ministry were immediately available for comment.
Russian troops have been involved in a 22-month campaign to subdue the rebel province and now have nominal control over most of the mountainous republic. But soldiers still die almost daily in mine attacks and rebel ambushes.
Three people were killed and 11 injured in an explosion in a Chechen marketplace today, Interfax news agency has quoted the town's military command post as saying.
The blast took place in the central marketplace in Gudermes, Chechnya's second town, this afternoon. Interfax said a 10-year-old boy was among the injured.
The market is close to a Russian police barracks, but the spokesman at the military command post said it was too soon to speculate on the cause of the blast.
No one at the office of Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the Kremlin's chief spokesman on Chechnya, or at the Interior Ministry were immediately available for comment.
Russian troops have been involved in a 22-month campaign to subdue the rebel province and now have nominal control over most of the mountainous republic. But soldiers still die almost daily in mine attacks and rebel ambushes.