MAKHACHKALA, Russia — The Interior Ministry say six suspected rebels, including three women, have been killed in a security sweep in Russia's restive North Caucasus.
The ministry’s spokesman
in the Caspian Sea province of Dagestan, Vyacheslav Gasanov, said
special forces cornered the suspects in a private house in the regional
capital, Makhachkala. He said they refused to surrender and five of them
were killed in a skirmish on Friday.
Gasanov said that another one approached police and blew herself up with a hand grenade. He said no police officers were hurt.
Dagestan
and other Caucasus provinces have been rocked by an Islamic insurgency
that has spread across the region following two separatist wars in
Chechnya. Dagestan has become the main epicenter of violence with daily
attacks on police and other authorities.
