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At least 12 people were killed on Friday when fighting broke out among tribes over the distribution of irrigated water in the troubled western region that borders Pakistan, according to Dawn News.
The fighting between the Shalozan and Shalozan Tangi tribes in the upper Kurram region started about a week ago and has resulted in the deaths of 27 people and wounded 40 others, according to the report, citing officials and residents.
The tribes used heavy arms in the fighting, said Dawn.
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.
According to media reports, fierce battles between Mujahideen and the puppet army of Tajikistan, backed by units of the FSB gangs, who have been sent from Russia, are taking place in Romitsky Valley in eastern Tajikistan.
Paratroopers, whom local residents identified as Russian servicemen, landed in Garma district. Russians, however, refute this information, claiming their troops are not engaged in the combats.
Earlier, the FSB chieftain Bortnikov said in Moscow that Medvedev ordered him to send his terrorist troops to Tajikistan, supposedly to “capture escaped prisoners”, which is no Russian problem. Why Russians chase foreign political prisoners in a foreign country, the criminal Bortnikov didn’t say.
Five people were killed and over 30 injured in Sunday’s attack on a military unit in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, a law enforcement source reported.
A Zhiguli car packed with explosives and driven by a suicide bomber detonated near the town of Buinaksk after ramming the gates of the military unit, making part of the 136th motorized rifle brigade, early on Sunday. The unit’s guard blocked the car, preventing a larger death toll.
Reports of the number of injured by different sources varied from 33 to 39. Many of those injured were in serious condition.
The Defense Ministry said three people were killed.
A law enforcement source said the power of the explosive device was equivalent to up to 100 kg of TNT.
A second explosion rocked the town as investigators were heading to the site. The second bomb exploded on the way of a police car after the car passed the place where the bomb was planted, so no one was killed or injured.
Officials in Tajikistan say two suicide bombers in an explosives-packed car slammed into a police station in the northern city of Khujand, killing two police officers and wounding some 25 others.
It would appear to be the first suicide bombing in the Central Asian country.
Reports said the toll could rise as investigators continued to search the rubble of the building for the bodies of missing officers.
Interior Ministry officials blamed the attack on elements with ties to the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), whose leadership purportedly has links to Al-Qaeda.