A passenger train was derailed by a bomb blast on a railway line on Saturday in Russia’s southern Dagestan, near the border with the rebel region of Chechnya, Interfax news agency said.
Itar-Tass news agency quoted local transport officials as saying unknown gunmen fired on a car from the FSB security service, wounding one officer who was on his way to the blast site. He was taken a nearby to hospital.
Itar-Tass said no one was injured or killed on the train accroding to preliminary information. Two carriages and the locomotive were derailed in the blast.
RIA Novosti news agency quoted a local official as saying unknown people had planted an explosive device on the tracks and it had exploded as the train passed.
Dagestan, a territory by the Caspian Sea, has suffered from an overspill of violence from Chechnya since a separatist war started in the North Caucasus territory more than a decade ago.
It has been the scene of numerous bomb and shooting attacks and incursions by Chechen rebels.
