MAKHACHKALA, Russia - An Interior Ministry official in Russia's restive province of Dagestan says two police officers have been killed and three wounded in an ambush.
Vyacheslav Gasanov said a police convoy was attacked early Tuesday on a forest road in the Tsumadi region. The convoy was returning after a security raid that followed Monday's killing of three police officers.
Gasanov said unidentified gunmen also killed a fortune teller in the town of Kaspiysk late Monday.
Dagestan and other provinces in Russia's North Caucasus have been destabilized by an Islamic insurgency that has spread following two separatist wars in nearby Chechnya.
Sergei Morozov, an Interior Ministry spokesman for the Caucasus region, said a suspected militant was killed and another one detained Monday in the province of Ingushetia.