Senior police officer, suspected militant and bystander killed in Russia's Caucasus
November, 26, 2009 - 04:34 pmTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAKHACHKALA, - Violence in three separate provinces of Russia's restive North Caucasus on Thursday left three people dead, law enforcement authorities said - one senior police officer, one suspected militant and one bystander.
The chief of a riot police unit in Dagestan, on the Caspian Sea east of war-scarred Chechnya, was shot by two gunmen as he headed to work in the provincial capital Makhachkala, provincial Interior Ministry spokesman Mark Tolchinsky said.
In Ingushetia, west of Chechnya, security forces killed a suspected militant in a gunbattle in a wooded area, said Ilyas Dugov, spokesman for the regional branch of the Federal Security Service. He said another gunman was wounded but avoided capture .
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