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FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER INJURES 18 IN RUSSIA

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A female suicide bomber has blown herself up in southern Russia, injuring at least 18 people.

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    A female suicide bomber has blown herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan, injuring at least 18 people.

    Two children and five police officers were among those wounded, authorities said on Saturday.

    The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces.

    It was the first suicide bombing in Dagestan since last month's Boston Marathon attacks.

    The Tsarnaev brothers suspected of carrying out those blasts are ethnic Chechens who lived in the turbulent Caucasus province before moving to the US.

    Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother who was killed in a shootout with police days after the April 15 bombings, spent six months in Dagestan in 2012.

    Dagestan remains an epicentre of violence in the confrontation between Islamic radicals and federal forces.

    Islamic extremists strive to create an independent Muslim state, or "emirate," in the Caucasus and parts of southern Russia with a sizable Muslim population.

    In Saturday's attack, the bomber detonated an explosives-laden belt in the central square in the provincial capital, Makhachkala, Dagestan's police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said.

    The woman was identified as Madina Alieva, 25, who married an Islamist who was killed in 2009 and then wedded another Islamic radical who was gunned down last year, police spokeswoman Fatina Ubaidatova said.

    Since 2000, at least two dozen women, most of them from the Caucasus, have carried out suicide bombings in Russian cities and aboard trains and planes.

    All were linked to an Islamic insurgency that spread throughout Dagestan and the predominantly Muslim Caucasus region after two separatist wars in neighbouring Chechnya.

    The bombers are often called "black widows" in Russia because many are the widows, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces.

    Islamic militants are believed to convince "black widows" that a suicide bombing will reunite them with their dead relatives beyond the grave.

    Police said two of the people injured in the attack were in critical condition. There were no details about the injured children.

    This week, a double explosion in Makhachkala killed four civilians and left 44 injured, while three security officers and three suspected militants have been killed in other incidents.

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