Russian policeman killed in Dagestan - Gayo Lues
Dagestan’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday that a group of unknown assailants armed with automatic rifles attacked the police officer’s car late on Friday.
The policemen succumbed to sustained injuries at the scene, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
“Some 20 7.62-mm and 17 5.45-mm spent cartridges were found at the site of the attack,” an unnamed local official said.
Russia has been fighting militants since the mid 1990s in its North Caucasus region, where the republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia have been the scene of sporadic attacks and militant clashes.
Violence first broke out in Chechnya in 1994, when 250,000 people were forced to flee to neighboring territories because of a war between Chechen separatists and the Russian army.
After a short-lived period of relative peace from 1996 to 1999, war resumed following attacks blamed on Chechen militant groups.
An estimated 100,000 people have been killed and thousands more displaced in the conflict.
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source: Presstv.ir – Europe News
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