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Russia

Four Suspected Militants Killed In Daghestan

(RFE/RL)

August 26, 2006 -- Heavily armed police surrounded a house in the
southern Russian republic of Daghestan today and exchanged gunfire with
suspected militants holed up inside, killing four and wounding a woman
who was with the gunmen.

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August 26, 2006

One police officer was wounded.

Daghestan's top police official, republican Interior Minister Adilgerei
Magomedtagirov, said police and security forces attacked the house
after its occupants rejected a demand to surrender. He said an
unspecified number of children left the building before the assault.

Magomedtagirov said the suspected militants were planning a terrorist attack, but he offered no evidence of this.

Meanwhile, Russian news agencies reported that three servicemen were
killed when gunmen attacked their vehicle in Ingushetia, which borders
Chechnya.

(AP)

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