She blew herself up at a
checkpoint in Russia Caucasus region of Dagestan ,
officials said Wednesday.The attack was the most deadly incident in a upsurge
of violence in mainly Muslim Dagestan since Vladimir Putin was elected
president."A woman set off a bomb with two kilogrammes of TNT on her body
at the checkpoint in Karabudakhent village," said a statement on the
Dagestani police website.The suicide bomber s severed head was found tens
of metres (yards) from the blast on Tuesday night, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.Investigators
said relatives had identified her as the widow of a Dagestan rebel leader who
was killed in a police operation against militants last month."She was
Aminat Ibrahimova, the widow of a leader of a group from (the town of) Kaspiysk,
the former interior ministry official Zaur Zagirov" an unnamed police
source told ITAR-TASS.The five victims were low-ranking police officers aged 22
to 34, the ministry said. Two more officers were hospitalised.--AFP
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