Female suicide bomber kills five in Russia

She blew herself up at a checkpoint in Russias volatile Caucasus region of Dagestan, officials said Wednesday.The attack was the most deadly incident in a upsurge of violence in mainly Muslim Dagestan since Vladimir Putin was elected president.A woman set off a bomb with two kilogrammes of TNT on her body at the checkpoint in Karabudakhent village, said a statement on the Dagestani police website.The suicide bombers severed head was found tens of metres (yards) from the blast on Tuesday night, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.Investigators said relatives had identified her as the widow of a Dagestan rebel leader who was killed in a police operation against militants last month.She was Aminat Ibrahimova, the widow of a leader of a group from (the town of) Kaspiysk, the former interior ministry official Zaur Zagirov an unnamed police source told ITAR-TASS.The five victims were low-ranking police officers aged 22 to 34, the ministry said. Two more officers were hospitalised.--AFP