MAKHACHKALA. Nov 3 (Interfax-South) - Human remains and a half-burnt passport issued in the name of Arslanbek Askhabov have been discovered at the scene of Tuesday's car bombing at a parking lot in Makhachkala, a source in Dagestan's law enforcement agencies told Interfax.
Twenty-eight-year-old Askhabov, who was a resident of the village of Novogroznenskoye in Chechnya's Gudermes district, is reported to have promoted Wahhabism ideas. He was under special services' scrutiny.
An explosive device went off inside a car left at a parking lot on Akushinsky Avenue at 7:10 p.m. Moscow time (1610 GMT) on Tuesday, the source said. A criminal case on charges of illegal possession of explosive substances and explosive devices has been opened.
The explosion injured another two people - a 41-year-old Khasavyurt district resident and a 10-year-old boy. Both were hospitalized. The blast destroyed 10 cars and damaged another 20.
Referring to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's southern regional center, an earlier report blamed the incident at the parking lot on a gas cylinder explosion.