Six people were injured in a blast which occurred in Akushinsky Avenue on Monday night. "Four people got different injures and another two were hospitalized with shell-shocks," Itar-Tass quoted a spokesman for the Interior Ministry for Dagestan as saying. As was reported earlier, a district police officer was injured in the blast. The incident took place near the wholesale market. According to investigators, "the remote control explosive device filled with nuts and bolts was placed near a VAZ-2107 car belonging to a senior district police officer of the Interior Department for the Sovetsky district of Makhachkala. The power of the explosive device was equivalent to 700 grams of TNT. The owner of the car didn't suffer, the car was considerably damaged."
