Russian police station hit by suicide bombing

Three men have attacked a police station in a village in Stavropol, Russia, according to the interior ministry, one of whom was a suicide bomber.

“An attack took place on a regional police station,” a spokesman for the interior ministry in Stavropol said.

“One of the attackers blew himself up, two others were killed.”

No one else was hurt in the attacks, with five explosions heard in the Southern Russian village, which is close to the predominantly Muslim Northern Caucasus.

Accounts from earlier had varied, with some news agencies reporting that three suicide bombers had blown themselves up and others saying there were three suicide bombers along with another attacker.

The affected area has now been placed on a state of high alert, with schools and hospitals in the vicinity evacuated.