Suicide attack in Russia

She blew herself up at a checkpoint in Russia's volatile 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.