Six officers injured in suicide attack in Russia

An explosive device first went off outside the building early on Friday, hurting no one. When law enforcement officers gathered to inspect the site, the suicide bomber approached them and detonated explosives, killing himself.

Uchkeken: At least six Russian law enforcement officers were injured Friday in the country's south when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a local office of the top security agency, authorities said.

"Upon attempting to detain him, the criminal self-detonated," Nikolai Maksimov, spokesperson for the national anti-terrorism committee.

The explosion occurred outside the building of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Uchkeken in the Karachayevo-Cherkessiya region of Russia's North Caucasus, Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement.

Chechnya, Karachayevo-Cherkessiya and other regions in Russia's volatile North Caucasus have faced bombings and other attacks by Islamist militants, some of whom have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group.

AP

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