North Ossetia: Bomb rocks in the central market of the capital Vladikavkaz, 17 killed and more than 90 injured
Seventeen people have been killed and up to 90 injured as a powerful car bomb attack hit the central market in the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of the republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
The youngest victim was only 18 months old. The boy died in hospital.
Eight children were among those taken to a local hospital.
There may be more victims as “in the first minutes after the blast, injured were being carried away by their friends and relatives who transported them to hospitals in taxis,” the republic’s deputy emergency minister Kazbek Bekmurzov told Itar-Tass new agency.