Blast kills several in Russia's Ingushetia-Ifax

MOSCOW, Aug 31 (Reuters) Several people were killed in a powerful blast today in the centre of Nazran, the capital of Russia's southern province of Ingushetia bordering Chechnya, Russian news agencies reported.

Interfax news agency quoted sources in local law-enforcement bodies as saying the blast occurred near the town's cultural centre when an army jeep was passing by. ''There are dead and injured,'' the source told Interfax.

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