Reports say security forces using tanks sealed off an area of the city and are conducting house-to-house searches. Local television urged city residents not to leave their homes.
One man was reported killed today when he allegedly put up resistance during a document check. Two other men who also resisted managed to escape.
Alleged Islamic extremists on 13 October launched a coordinated series of attacks on police stations and other government buildings in Nalchik, the capital of Russia's southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. More than 130 people were reported killed in the attacks and the fighting that followed.
Radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev claimed he was behind the attacks.
(AP/Interfax/dpa)
One man was reported killed today when he allegedly put up resistance during a document check. Two other men who also resisted managed to escape.
Alleged Islamic extremists on 13 October launched a coordinated series of attacks on police stations and other government buildings in Nalchik, the capital of Russia's southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. More than 130 people were reported killed in the attacks and the fighting that followed.
Radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev claimed he was behind the attacks.
(AP/Interfax/dpa)
