MAKHACHKALA/MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax-AVN) - A bomb exploded near a GAZ-66 vehicle carrying border guards on the Makhachkala- Kaspiysk highway in Dagestan on Thursday morning, a source in the Dagestani Interior Ministry's on-duty office told Interfax.
Nobody was hurt and investigators are working at the blast scene, he said.
A source in the Federal Security Service's Public Relations Center told Interfax that a radio-controlled landmine had exploded near the Dagestan Sanatorium when a GAZ-66 and a bus carrying the Caspian aviation squadron of the North Caucasus regional border guard directorate were passing by.
"The servicemen were en route to a military unit located on the premises of the sanatorium. None of the border guards were killed or wounded," an official report of the Public Relations Center says.
This is not the first terrorist act against border guards in the region. A bomb equivalent to about 300 grams of TNT exploded on the Vladikavkaz-Nazran highway in November 2001. The explosion damaged a ZIL-131 truck carrying border guards. Private Yelena Yefimova was killed and four officers and a warrant officer were wounded in the explosion.
"A bus of border guards nearly hit an anti-tank mine planted on the curb around the same area a year later," the source said.