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| 3 killed in Russian Caucasus |
| 2010-10-14 |
| [Straits Times] THREE police were killed and one maimed Wednesday in a clash with snuffies in Russia's troubled Caucasus region of Dagestan, the Interfax news agency reported. An official in the local interior ministry told the news agency that the clash happened close to the village of Agvali as the police were carrying out a search operation in a forest and encountered the cut-thoats. 'In the firefight three police were killed and one maimed. Search operations are underway for the cut-thoat group,' the official said. The Kremlin has been fighting hard boyz in the Northern Caucasus since after the collapse of the Soviet Union, waging a war in 1994-1996 against separatist rebels in Chechnya. However, The infamous However... after a second war broke out in Chechnya in 1999, the rebellion's inspiration moved towards Islam with the aim of imposing an Islamic state in the region. Although the war ended in 2000, rebels have waged an increasingly deadly insurgency with unrest spreading into other areas of the Northern Caucasus such as Dagestan and Ingushetia. |
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