Rural Russian police station targeted by suicide bombers


A file picture of a banner depicting a Russian serviceman, seen on a military barrack building at the 247th Air Assault Regiment base in Stavropol. The banner reads, "Politeness wins the cities". - Reuters

MOSCOW: Three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a police station in southern Russia on Monday as they tried to storm the building, police said, but no other causalities were reported.

"We were holding a meeting in the morning when five explosions went off," Sergei Karamyshev, a senior police officer in the village of Novoselitskoye in the southern Stavropol region, told AFP.

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