4 police, 10 ten gunmen killed in clashes in Russia's Dagestan region in the North Caucasus
Four police and ten gunmen were killed Wednesday, investigators said, in clashes in Russia's Dagestan region in the North Caucasus where the Kremlin is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency.
All of the policemen and six militants were killed in an exchange of gunfire that erupted after gunmen in a house near the city of Derbent on the Caspian Sea refused to surrender their weapons, the federal Investigative Committee said.
Four officers were also wounded in the fighting.
In a separate incident, four militants were killed and a policeman injured in the center of Derbent overnight, local investigators said.
Youths angry about poverty and fueled by the ideology of global jihad stage near-daily attacks in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus -- most of them in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya, ... >>full
Gunmen opened fire on a police post in the city of Derbent in the Russian republic of Dagestan overnight, killing two police officers, Ria Novosti agency quoted the local interior ministry as saying Sunday.
Another police officer was wounded in the attack, the report said.
Violence is common in Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus republics, especially Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, with militants frequently targeting police and officials as representatives of Russian authorities, Xinhua reported.
The Kremlin has taken measures to improve the local economy and employment and tackle the problems of clan rivalries and corruption, in its effort to prevent locals from being misled into joining terrorist groups in the region.
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