NALCHIK/MAKHACHKALA, November 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russian law enforcement officers shot and killed two armed men who resisted arrest in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the volatile North Caucasus, police said late Tuesday.
The alleged militants died in a shootout after officers tried to apprehend them in a local forest, a local police spokesman said.
No injuries were reported among the law enforcement forces. Investigators are working to identify the attackers.
Meanwhile, three suspected militants were besieged by police Tuesday in a house in Makhachkala, the capital of the neighboring republic of Dagestan, police said. The standoff was continuing as of Wednesday morning.
Russia’s North Caucasus is plagued by violence caused by a number of factors, including ethnic tensions, poverty, corruption and a resilient Islamic insurgency.
Fifty-nine people were slain in Kabardino-Balkaria in the first nine months of this year, and another 239 in Dagestan, according to independent news website Kavkaz-uzel.ru.
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