2 killed in blast near mosque in Russian Caucasus

Moscow: Two people were killed on Friday when a bomb exploded outside a village mosque in the Russian Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria, the interior ministry said.
“A powerful explosion went off at 3:20 am in the village of Dugulubgei close to the village mosque… Fragments of the bodies of two unidentifed people were found at the scene,” the regional interior ministry said in a statement.
Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee named the preliminary cause of the explosion as the two dead “blowing themselves up.”
An report by the Interfax news agency quoted a law enforcement source as saying that the victims apparently blew themselves up accidentally while planting the IED. (AFP)