Baku-APA. Two policemen were wounded in a home-made bomb blast Tuesday night in a local village, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The Northern Governorate Police general director said that police were on duty when the explosion happened, adding the injured were taken to hospital for treatment.
"Preliminary information indicates that the terror act happened after terrorists detonated a homemade bomb," he said.
The official said security agencies have launched an investigation to identify the perpetrators of the terrorist act and arrest them.
The incident happened in Duraz village, where security authorities earlier in the day raided the house of a top Shiite cleric in connection with a bus blast case occurred on November 20.
The ministry later released a video showing masked personnel entering the house in the presence of residents and searching different areas in a professional manner.
The controversial cleric, Shaikh Isa Qassim, is the founder of Al Wefaq and its spiritual leader. He in January 2012 urged his congregation to "crush policemen." Later, policemen were attacked by radical groups in different parts of the country.
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