MAKHACHKALA — A bomb exploded as a car was passing near a military base on Sunday, killing two people, and a soldier was killed in a separate blast in the same city where a military parade bombing exactly eight years ago killed scores.
The blasts in the Dagestani city of Kaspiisk took place on Victory Day, a holiday often chosen by insurgents to launch terrorist attacks, including the 2004 killing of Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, who died in a bomb blast while attending a military parade at a stadium.
One bomb went off near a checkpoint at the entrance to the military base, killing two people in the passing car, the Federal Security Service said. The explosion was initially thought to have been a car bombing carried out by two suicide bombers.
Regional police spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said a soldier was killed Sunday in Kaspiisk when a bomb exploded outside a house where soldiers live.
He said the soldier was a sapper who had been called to inspect a suspicious package on the street outside the house.
In Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, sappers were called to disable an explosive device found near the entrance to a city park, the Federal Security Service said.
Also Sunday, a small bomb exploded on a main street in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Officials said there were no injuries.
Meanwhile, a powerful bomb tore through a crowd of commuters at a railway station in the Dagestani town of Derbent on Friday, killing a woman and wounding five other people, officials said.
The woman died in a hospital shortly after a bomb planted in a garbage bin exploded, regional transportation police spokesman Akhmed Magomayev said. He said a police officer was among the wounded.