Explosion at Russian Military Hospital.

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Chechnya. Ch. 2 CBS television news.

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters08-01-084349.asp?reg=EUROPE

A car exploded near a Russian military hospital in a Caucasus region bordering war-wracked Chechnya on Friday, the local emergencies ministry said. A spokesman said a ministry team had rushed to the scene of the blast in the North Ossetian town of Mozdok, the site of one of the biggest Russian military bases in the Caucasus, but had no further information.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V9642.AP-Russia-Explosio.html

Blast Destroys Hospital Near Chechnya

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP)--An explosion destroyed a Russian military hospital near Chechnya, an emergency official said. Russian news agencies said there were casualties in blast.

The car-bomb blast destroyed a hospital in the town of Mozdok in the North Ossetia region, said Boris Dzgoyev, the regional Emergency Situations Minister. He said there were at least 100 people in the hospital at the time of the blast.

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1. Car bomb?

MSNBC NEWS BULLETIN
'Many dead' in Russian blast
Car bomb destroys hospital

[NYC]

2. Apparently a car bomb.

From Wednesday:

Five Russian soldiers killed near Chechnya, sparking fears of wider conflict
MOSCOW July 30 - Five Russian soldiers were killed Wednesday in an attack in a southern republic neighbouring separatist Chechnya that fanned fears of the four-year guerrilla war spilling over to other regions of southern Russia.

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/content.asp?y=2003&dt=0731&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=World&pg=wo_07.htm

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3. Now heard 20 dead.

Out of a potential 100.