Fourteen militants were killed in a police operation in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan on Wednesday, the National Anti-Terror Committee (NAK) said.
“As of 13:40 Moscow time [09:40 GMT], fourteen militants have been killed, nine in the city of Kaspiysk and five in Makhachkala,” the statement said.
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14 militants killed in Russia’s Dagestan
September 29th, 2010 |
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Dagestan car bombing kills five Russian soldiers
September 5th, 2010 |
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A suicide car bombing at a military base in the southern Russian region of Dagestan has killed five soldiers and wounded about 40 others. The bomber smashed a car laden with explosives through the gate of a camp near Buynaksk, an interior ministry spokesman said.
Two killed in blast in Russia’s Dagestan
April 1st, 2010 |
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Two people were killed in a car bomb blast in the Russia’s Caucasus region of Dagestan overnight Thursday, according to media reports. The explosives-laden car blew up near the region of Khasavyurt, officials from the Interior Ministry told Interfax news agency. The bomb is presumed to have exploded prematurely.
Bomb cuts gas supplies in Dagestan, Russia
January 13th, 2010 |
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More than 200,000 people in the Russian republic of Dagestan have been left without gas supplies after a bomb attack on a gas pipeline. The explosion destroyed part of the pipeline late on Tuesday, and it was expected to take up to 48 hours to restore supplies.
Suicide bomber kills 6 in Russia’s Dagestan
January 6th, 2010 |
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The number of police killed in a suicide bomb attack in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan has risen to six. This is according to a RIA Novosti report, quoting the regional emergency medicine center on Wednesday.
Blast at cemetery in Dagestan kills three
November 13th, 2009 |
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Three people were killed in an explosion at a village cemetery in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Friday, a police spokesman said. “Three people were killed when a homemade explosive device went off at a cemetery in the village of Gubden,” the spokesman said.
Blast at cemetery in Dagestan kills three
November 13th, 2009 |
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Three people were killed in an explosion at a village cemetery in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Friday, a police spokesman said. “Three people were killed when a homemade explosive device went off at a cemetery in the village of Gubden,” the spokesman said.
Eight suspected militants killed in S. Russia
July 28th, 2009 |
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8 suspected militants were killed in an ambush staged by security forces near Dagestan’s capital, said the southern Russian republic’s Federal Security Service. “The eight-member militant group was killed in a skirmish in a wooded area between the village of Talgi and Makhachkala overnight,” an FSB spokesman said.
‘Eight rebels killed’ in Dagestan
July 28th, 2009 |
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At least eight suspected militants have been killed by Russian security forces in the troubled southern republic of Dagestan, local officials have said.
The men were shot dead by members of the Federal Security Service during an hour-long gun battle in a forest near the capital, Makhachkala, they added.
In neighbouring Chechnya, a militant was killed during a raid in the Urus-Martanovskiy district, reports say.
The clashes came after a suicide bomber killed six people in Grozny on Sunday.
The man blew himself up after police stopped him while he attempted to gain entry to a concert hall in the Chechen capital.
Growing insurgency
Violence has flared in the North Caucasus in recent months, with dozens of militants and members of the security forces being killed.
In June, the President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, was critically injured by a car bomb in an apparent assassination attempt.
Two weeks earlier, Dagestan’s interior minister was shot dead.
Russian forces have fought two wars against Islamist separatists in the mainly Muslim republic of Chechnya since 1994. The conflicts claimed more than 100,000 lives and left it in ruins.
Chechnya has in recent years been more peaceful, but the fighting has spread to Dagestan and Ingushetia, where correspondents say a violent Islamist insurgency is growing.</p
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Chechnya ambush leaves four dead
July 15th, 2009 |
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Two police officers and two soldiers have been killed in a gun battle with militants in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, officials say.
They were ambushed in the Vedenskiy district late on Tuesday by up to 15 gunmen, who later fled, they added. Six other security personnel were injured.
Later, a court bailiff and a relative were killed in neighbouring Ingushetia.
Violence in the North Caucasus since Saturday has left 10 security personnel and 23 militants dead, officials say.
Overnight on Monday, a policeman was killed and six others injured by a bomb explosion in the Chechen capital, Grozny, while three militants and a soldier were shot dead during a gun battle in Dagestan, authorities in the two republics said.
Earlier, gunmen ambushed a Dagestani police patrol, reportedly killing two officers. A sniper shot dead a third officer in a separate incident.
Growing insurgency
The latest clashes come after a string of successful attacks by militants on high-level government targets in the North Caucasus.
Last month, the president of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, was critically injured by a car bomb in an apparent assassination attempt.
Two weeks earlier, Dagestan’s interior minister was shot dead.
Russian forces have fought two wars against Islamist separatists in the mainly Muslim republic of Chechnya since 1994. The conflicts claimed more than 100,000 lives and left it in ruins.
Chechnya has in recent years been more peaceful, but the fighting has spread to Dagestan and Ingushetia, where correspondents say a violent Islamist insurgency is growing.
In April, President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the end of a decade-long "counter-terrorism operation" in Chechnya, which was supposed to pave the way for the withdrawal of thousands of federal troops.
But the BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Moscow says that the violence of the past five days shows that despite government claims, the insurgency in the North Caucasus is far from being defeated.</p
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