Three policemen were killed and four were injured by a suicide car bombing outside a police station in Sernovodsk in Chechnya. Another suicide bombing outside a police station was foiled in Ordzhonikidzevskaya in neighboring Ingushetia, and two police officers were wounded in a separate incident in Ingushetia when a car carrying insurgents they were chasing detonated. A moderate Muslim civil and religious activist was assassinated in the Dagestani city of Kizlyar.
