NALCHIK, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – Three suspected militants were killed Monday in an ongoing counter-terrorism operation in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a police source said.
The militants, who were surrounded in a private house, were killed after they opened fire on Russian law enforcement officers, the source said. Two police officers were injured in the operation, that began at 8:30 a.m. Moscow time (04:30 GMT).
An Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years, with attacks on security forces, police and civilians reported regularly in the nearby republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
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