MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two powerful blasts outside the capital of Russia's Dagestan region killed at least seven people and wounded up to 30 near a police post, Russian media reported on Thursday.
At least one of the bombs that exploded outside the police post near the provincial capital of Makhachkala was planted in a car parked nearby, Itar-Tass reported citing a law enforcement official.
"Fragments of human bodies are scattered at the post...," Interfax quoted a law enforcement official as saying. "Some people are reported missing."
"There could be up to 30 (wounded), but this is preliminary (data)," a medical official said.
An unofficial Islamist website www.kavkazcenter.com reported that the second bomb detonated when additional police and emergency vehicles arrived at the scene. The police post was almost destroyed by the two blasts, the website said.
Dagestan, which faces almost daily shootings and bomb attacks, has been caught up in an Islamist insurgency across the mainly Muslim North Caucasus following two separatist wars in Chechnya.
The rebels want to create an Islamic state in the region, which is close to Sochi, where Russia will host the winter Olympics in 2014.
(Reporting By Alexei Anishchuk)
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