Blasts and shootings on Friday killed five people and injured at least 26 in North Caucasus region, Ingushetia.

Near the town of Malgobek in Ingushetia, a policeman was killed and 25 people injured when a second bomb exploded in a shop bombed earlier in the day, a police spokesman told Reuters.

Police at the scene told Reuters a fighter was also killed in a gunfight that ensued between officers and fighters.

In a separate incident, a woman selling vodka from a kiosk was shot dead in Malgobek by unidentified gunmen, sources close to the police said.

Reuters