Sunday, May 8, 2011

1 officer, 4 killed rebels in Russia

MAKHACHKALA, Russia - a Russian police officer and four insurgents were killed in two clashes in the South of the country.

The Ministry of the Interior of the province of Dagestan, said that an officer and three rebels were killed Sunday start when the police discovered a camp in the woods near Chechnya.

Sunday, police also reported that one insurgent was killed and two others detained in an operation in the city of Astrakhan. Police said the men were said to prepare terrorist attacks Monday, when the Russia observed the end of the European fighting, in the second world war a large holiday secular country.

The Caucasus region that includes Dagestan has suffered by insurgent violence since the first Chechen war broke out in 1994. The Astrakhan insurgents have been described as being native to the Caucasus.

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