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Twin blasts rocked Russia"s North Caucasus...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a government session on Wednesday he did not rule out that a single terrorist group may be behind the bombings. President Dmitry Medvedev also said there may be a link.

Wednesday"s attacks took place in the town of Kizlyar, near Dagestan"s border with Chechnya, and also left 29 people injured.

The first blast went off at 08:45 Moscow time (04:45 GMT), when a car bomb was detonated by a suicide bomber some 300 meters from the buildings of the Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and a school. It had a force of up to 200 kg of TNT.

Two police officers were killed in the explosion, which also injured several bystanders.

The second explosion came 20 minutes later when a suicide bomber dressed in a police officer"s uniform blew himself up as a crowd gathered.

The suicide bomber, who had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to his body, has been identified as Daud Jabrailov, a citizen of Kizlyar,

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