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GROZNY, Russia, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Authorities in Chechnya have found a powerful homemade bomb in a house in the Russian republic's Urus-Martan region, an official said Saturday.
An unidentified spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry said the homemade explosive device has been linked to a militant Muslim, Itar-Tass reported.
"Law enforcers and sappers have found in a ruined house near the federal highway Kavkaz on the outskirts of the village Gehi a cache belonging to militant Islam Shakhsaitov who is on the wanted list," the spokesman said.
The ministry representative said the bomb contained more than 130 pounds of TNT.
The Russian news agency said authorities detonated the device.
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