A suicide bomber detonates a van filled with dynamite at the entrance to a police base in Dagestan, leaving one dead and eight injured.

A crater and heaps of mangled steel a day after a suicide bomber attacked this police base in Dagestan, the Russian republic on the Caspian Sea.

Officials say the man drove a van to the base's entrance and blew himself up, unleashing a blast which was equivalent to over 300 pounds of dynamite.

The impact charred buildings in the immediate area and ripped through a parking lot of police vehicles.

One policeman is dead and at least eight people are injured.

The incident comes a few days after rebels staged a suicide attack on neighboring Chechnya's parliament, killing three people.

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