Azerbaijan Railways: No problem in sending trains from Azerbaijan

"There is no any problem in sending trains from Azerbaijan. The Baku-Rostov train has already crossed the border," said Azmamedov.

As RIA Novosti quoted a source in law enforcement bodies of Dagestan, due to the blast on the railway, the Tyumen-Baku and Baku-Rostov passenger trains and four freight trains were detained.

A freight train loaded with grain was derailed after an explosive device went off at a railroad in Dagestan early on Sunday, RIA Novosti reported.

A spokesman for the local Interior Ministry said there were no casualties in the blast, adding that a group of investigators was working at the scene of the incident.

This is the second blast at a railroad in Dagestan since the start of this month. Another freight train was derailed on July 2 by a blast on a railroad in Karabudakhkentsky district, near the republic's capital, Makhachkala. The train driver and his assistant were injured.

Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common in Russia's largely Muslim North Caucasus republics, especially Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia.


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