At least four people are dead and 44 are injured after two separate bombs went off today, May 20 in Russia.
Thirty-one of the injured were hospitalized according to Reuters. The incident took place in Makhackala, the capital of semi-autonomous republic of Dagestan.
Police believe law enforcement officers could have been the target since the bombs went off right outside a local marshal's facility.
The first bomb was found by a police patrol, who called in a bomb unit to defuse it before it went off. As the unit was working on it, the bomb exploded. The explosion was called "minor" according to Reuters.
As a crowd of people gathered around to see what was going on, a second, more "powerful" bomb went off causing most of the casualties.
Car bombs and suicide bombings are common in Dagestan, the center of an insurgency rooted in two previous-Soviet wars according to Reuters.
Investigators originally said eight people had been killed by the blasts in Makhachkala, but the regional Interior Ministry later changed the death toll to three and said more than 40 people were wounded.
Both explosions were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs' service and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, said the federal Investigative Committee, a Russian state agency.
One of the main suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings in the United States, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, lived in Dagestan with his family about 10 years ago and visited the region in 2012 according to Reuters.
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