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Makhachkala, Russia (AFP / Reuters) - A woman was killed and five others wounded when a bomb exploded in the territory of Dagestan in southern Russia, Friday, local officials said.

A local transport police spokesman said the blast was caused by a bomb placed in storage junk on the platform of a railway station in the town of Derbent.

"The blasts hit the platform when people got on a train that brought people commute to work every day," said the spokesman, who added that three policemen and three civilians were wounded in the blast.

A woman was injured later died of his injuries, a spokesman for the hospital clearly Derbent.

Russian police on the alert for possible attacks ahead of the defeat of Nazi Germany ke65 warning in World War II, on Sunday.

Guerrillas from Chechnya, near Dagestan, in the past have launched attacks on Victory Day, a holiday associated with the mass deportation of ethnic Chechens by Soviet leader Josef Stalin during the war.

Dagestan, Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia at the center of their resistance guerrillas who want to establish an independent Islamic state.