Blasts kill 12 in the Caucasus

Officials said killed at least 12 people and more than 120 wounded in two car bombs exploded in Russia's North Caucasus, the deadliest strike militant for several months in the troubled region, huge explosions Friday.The late on Thursday outside the city of Dagestan, the main, which authorities said television said showed.Investigators reduced images may be triggered by suicide bombers, I drew a huge yellow flames in the night sky, to the wreckage of cars were burned and left a hole in the ground, and 12 people were killed, while the Emergency Situations Ministry said the death toll to 13. The latest attacks a few days before Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin to give a strong leader, Vladimir Putin, who has vowed once famous as "eliminating (the militants) in the outhouse." Investigators said the first explosion went off in the outskirts of the city of Makhachkala when a car packed with explosives near the passage of another police at 10:10 p.m. (1810 GMT), damaging nearby buildings and cars but causing no fatalities.The a second car bomb exploded 15 minutes after to reach the later of police and rescue workers and passers-by, said police investigators who gathered said.Regional was at the scene, in a statement that the first explosion went off when a suicide bomber blew up a parked his vehicle near the Mitshubishi last passage to the police.The representative declined to investigators Dagestan regional to confirm the report but said that investigators believe that a suicide bomber caused the second explosion, which occurred when he drove a car in the TV crowd.State said it appeared that the explosion was intended to attract workers the initial emergency and security forces to the scene of the accident, which was then a second more powerful explosion.