A senior puppet official in the Russian-occupied province of Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate was wounded and his driver killed on Saturday by a bomb planted in their car, a puppet police spokesman said.
Bekmurza Bekmurzayev, a minister in charge of national, religious and foreign affairs in Dagestan's puppet government, was taken to hospital suffering from shock. His bodyguard was also injured by the bomb.
"The minister left the car without exterior help," a witness told Reuters. A badly burned body was at the scene, another witness said.
One of the most populous regions in the mainly Muslim north Caucasus, Dagestan borders Chechnya which declared independency after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 but was attacked by Russian forces in two wars since the mid-1990s.
Sabotages and attack continue in Muslim states occupied by Russia.
Amnesty International also said in its 2009 report on Caucasus that the so-called "counter-terrorism operation" that the Russian authorities declared there gave a green light to human right violations by puppet government forces in Chechnya.
Source: Agencies
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