MAKHACHKALA, Russia, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Two police officers died and 12 people were injured Monday by a suicide car bomb detonated near Dzhemikentskogo traffic police post in the Derbent region of Dagestan, Russia.
The attack was organized by militants who have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, said Rasul Temirbekov, spokesman for the Dagestani branch of the federal Investigative Committee.