MAKHACHKALA, March 20 (RIA Novosti) - Three service
personnel were killed and three police officers wounded in a
special operation conducted over two days in Russia's North
Caucasus Republic of Daghestan, Daghestan's interior ministry
said Friday.
"According to confirmed information, during the two-day
special operation three service personnel died and three police
officers were wounded," Daghestan's deputy interior minister,
Magomed Ismailov, said.
The ministry also said a number of militants had been
killed during the operation, although the total figure was
unknown due to intense gunfire in the woodland area, where the
armed fighters are holed up.
The special operation in Kakashur started after a clash on
Wednesday between law enforcement officers and militants.
Police then encircled a group of 10 to 15 armed fighters.
The militants are thought to be members of a group aligned
to Magomedali Vagabov, who is on a federal and international
wanted list for attacks on police officers and
terrorist-related crimes.
Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common
in Daghestan, and in neighboring Chechnya, although the Kremlin
has officially ended its military campaign to fight separatists
and terrorists there.
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