MOSCOW: One person was killed and nine others were wounded Wednesday in an apparent suicide car bomb attack in Makhachkala, the main city of Russia's violent Dagestan region, the Interfax news agency reported.

An unknown individual exploded a homemade bomb with 40 kilogrammes of explosives when traffic police were checking his car in the early hours of the morning, a security source told the agency.

‘Six police and three medics, who were stationed at the post, were wounded.
One local inhabitant received wounds from the bomb fragments and died on the spot,’ the source said.

There has been mounting violence throughout Russia's overwhelmingly Muslim Northern Caucasus over the last months as militants wage a low-level insurgency against the pro-Kremlin local authorities.

Russian special services said Monday they had killed in Dagestan an Algerian man known as Doctor Mohammad and suspected of being a member of the al-Qaeda terror network.