A senior official in Russia's second city Saint Petersburg was seriously wounded Monday when a bomb exploded as he was getting into his car, police said.
Sergei Alyoshin, deputy head of the Vasilyevsky Ostrov district administration, was rushed to hospital but his daughter, who was in the car at the time, was unhurt by the blast, police told AFP.
"This attack could be linked to his professional duties," a police spokesman said of the bomb attack on the city official.
Saint Petersburg has been dubbed Russia's "crime capital" as a result of the large number of contract killings carried out in the northwestern city.
Twenty-eight victims of this type of crime have been reported in the former tsarist capital since the beginning of the year -- SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP)
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