At least 15 people have been killed and 77 wounded in an explosion at the central market in the Russian Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz.
The explosion went off at the entrance to the market, which is usually crowded as it is where employers recruit potential employees.
The attacker detonated a bomb packed with metal bars, bolts and ball bearings in a car outside the entrance to the market in Vladikavkaz, capital of North Ossetia province.
The blast has killed at least 15 and injured 77 people.
The power of the blast shattered windows of nearby buildings.
North Ossetia's top official Taimuraz Mamsurov, has said a headless body was found in the wrecked car.
President Dmitry Medvedev, who has called the North Caucasus unrest Russia's most severe political problem, ordered his envoy to the North Caucasus to fly to the region.
North Ossetia, is where 331 people died in the 2004 Beslan school siege.
At least 50 people were killed in a bomb blast at the same market in 1999, the year the Kremlin launched its second war to drive separatists from power in Chechnya.
