Ministry spokesman Roman Shchekotin said one member of the group of armed men holed up in the house was also killed.
Clashes between militants influenced by the nearby Chechen war and local law enforcement authorities are frequent in the republic.
(AP)
The Chechnya Conflict
The Chechnya Conflict
The aftermath of a December 2002 Chechen resistance attack on the main government building in Grozny (epa)
CHRONOLOGY
The fighting in Chechnya has raged, with short breaks, since 1994. It has brought misery, death, and destruction to the North Caucasus republic and to Russia as a whole. View an annotated timeline of the conflict.
