NOVOSELITSKOYE, STAVROPOL REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Security was tightened on Monday (April 11) in Russia’s southern Stavropol region after three men including at least one suicide bomber attacked a rural police station.
Russia’s Interior Ministry said police in the affected area had been put on a high state of alert, and security measures were tightened at airports and railway stations in the region.
Soldiers and police in the village blocked streets in the village with APCs and deployed a helicopter overhead. Investigators working at the scene were photographed next to blood stains on the walls of the police station.
The attack took place in the village of Novoselitskoye close to the volatile majority-Muslim North Caucasus area, where Islamist extremists intent upon carving out a breakaway caliphate have targeted policemen in a series of car bombings and shootings.
Initial reports said nobody else – including police officers or civilians – had been hurt.