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Article: 7 killed in South Ossetia blast
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- October 3, 2008
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A car bomb exploded outside the Russian military's headquarters in South Ossetia on Friday, killing seven soldiers, Russian officials and the government of the Moscow-backed separatist region said.
Georgian and Russian authorities traded accusations over the blast, the deadliest single occurrence reported in South Ossetia since the nations fought a war over the region in August. Both sides claimed it was aimed at scuttling the fragile Western-backed cease-fire.
South Ossetia's separatist President Eduard Kokoity called the explosion "a targeted terrorist act" and claimed the Georgian State Security Ministry was behind it, Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported. ...