Moscow, May 20 (EFE).- The death toll from the car-bomb attacks Monday in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian federal republic of Dagestan, has been revised downward to three, with more than a dozen people wounded, officials said. "According to preliminary figures, three people died - a police officer, an operations officer and a marshal. More than 10 people were wounded," the official Dagestan Interior Ministry spokesman said. The government initially told the Interfax news agency that at least eight people were killed when the two car bombs exploded.

At least four people died and several were injured in fighting between military police and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic at the weekend, a military police official said Monday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fighting broke out Sunday in the town of Bimbo south of the capital after members of the Seleka rebel coalition "stole and hid" several vehicles. He said military police had gone to recover the vehicles, but the alleged thieves resisted and one of the rebels was shot by the officers.

Moscow, May 20 (EFE).- At least eight people were killed when two car bombs exploded Monday in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian federal republic of Dagestan, officials said. "Two car bombs exploded within minutes. According to preliminary figures, at least eight people died. The number of wounded is not known," a government spokesman told the Interfax news agency. The car bombs were detonated next to a police building, the spokesman said.

French actor Gerard Depardieu, who was granted Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin, is set to film a thriller in Moscow and Grozny with British actress Elizabeth Hurley. Hurley revealed on Twitter on Wednesday that she was shopping for costumes in Moscow after arriving to make the film with the veteran French actor. "Hello Moscow!" she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday after writing on May 11 that she was "prepping for a new movie I start next week in Russia with Gerard Depardieu."