An FSB officer died in hospital on Friday after being injured when a bomb went off in his car in Nazran, capital of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia.
“Alikhan Yandiyev was hospitalized after a car explosion. He was badly injured and died during an operation,” a source from the Republic’s main hospital said. Yandiyev’s wife was also hospitalized but her condition is not serious, the source said.
Investigators have opened a criminal case into the explosion, the investigation committee said.