Powerful bomb defused in Kabardino-Balkaria

According to the Interior Ministry of Kabardino-Balkaria,

specialists in explosives defused a powerful home-made bomb found on

the side of the road in the Baksan district of Kabardino-Balkaria.

"Around 13:00 MSK on Monday employees of the Interior Ministry of

Defense in the village of Dugulubgey found a radio-controlled improvised

explosive device disguised with tree bark," a statement reads, RIA

Novosti reports.

The bomb was a metal tube with a diameter of 40-10cm, filled with

explosives based on ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder and equipped

with a radio-controlled device.

"According to experts, the power of the home-made bomb was not less

than seven kilograms of TNT," the Interior Ministry says.

In view of the risk of transporting, the bomb was destroyed on the spot.