At least 15 people have been killed and more than 60 wounded in an apparent car bomb attack on a market in Vladikavkaz in southern Russia, officials say.
Bodies lay strewn about, buildings were damaged and cars destroyed.
Local people rushed to help the wounded, even as police tried to clear the scene, fearing another bomb.
It is one of the bloodiest attacks in years in Russia's North Caucasus region, which has been beset by Islamist and separatist violence.
Vladikavkaz is the capital of the Russian republic of North Ossetia, which borders the volatile region of Ingushetia.
It also neighbours South Ossetia, a tense breakaway region of Georgia where Russia and Georgia went to war two years ago
