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Suicide Blast Wounds Six Police Officers in Chechen Capital Grozny

© REUTERS / Eduard KorniyenkoMembers of law enforcement forces stand guard during a rally to protest against satirical cartoons of prophet Mohammad, near the Heart of Chechnya mosque in Grozny, Chechnya January 19, 2015
Members of law enforcement forces stand guard during a rally to protest against satirical cartoons of prophet Mohammad, near the Heart of Chechnya mosque in Grozny, Chechnya January 19, 2015 - Sputnik International
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A suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Russia’s Chechnya region wounded six police officers, the local police department confirmed on Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A RIA Novosti police source said earlier that the blast ripped through a checkpoint in Chechnya’s capital city Grozny at around 7 a.m. local time (04:00 GMT).

"Today, police officers prevented two armed men carrying grenades and explosives from entering through Checkpoint No138 on the Grozny outskirts. Preliminary data suggests that six officers were wounded, two of them severely, in an attempt to liquidate [the militants]," the statement said.

According to RIA Novosti’s security source, one of the attackers was able to detonate an explosive, while the second was killed before he could trigger a second explosion.

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