Three police officers and a suspected Local police chief Lieutenant-Colonel Salovdi Viskhanov and investigative chief Major Magomed Musiyev "were going home from work when their car came under fire," police sources told Interfax. Both officers died of their wounds, sources added.
In neighbouring Chechnya, a policeman who tried to defuse an explosive device found on the street, died when it exploded, sources told ITAR-TASS.
In Dagestan's Derbent region, a suspected