 According to Russian law enforcement official police and security agents clashed with gunmen holed up in a village in RussiaÂ’s troubled North Caucasus early Monday, at least one gunman killed, the Associated Press reported Monday. Regional Interior Ministry spokeswoman, Angela Martirosova, reported that between two and four militants had entered Kosyakino village in Dagestan. Fire started at dawn as Federal Security Service confronted the gunmen and ordered them to surrender, Martirosova said. Like other provinces in the poor, largely Muslim North Caucasus, Dagestan, located on the Caspian Sea, has seen increasing violence directed at police and government officials, spilling over from war-wracked Chechnya. |