A suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives through the gates of a Russian military hospital near Chechnya on Friday, destroying the building and killing at least 22 people.
Seventy-six others were wounded in the attack, the latest in an upsurge of suicide bombings that have killed more than 100 people since May.
The blast demolished the four-story red brick hospital in the city of Mozdok in Russia's North Ossetia region, the region's Emergency Situations Minister Boris Dzgoyev told The Associated Press.
The building, which had 115 people inside, including medical workers and patients, collapsed like a house of cards, killing at least 22 people, Mr. Dzgoyev said. He said 76 people were wounded. A fire broke out, but it was contained in less than two hours.
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