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| Two Police Killed, Three Servicemen Wounded in Caucasus |
| 2011-11-03 |
| [An Nahar] Two coppers were rubbed out in a car chase in the restive Caucasus region of Dagestan, and three servicemen were maimed in a separate incident, police said on Wednesday. Police came under attack in the Dagestani village of Babayurt in the early hours of Wednesday as they tried to stop a black car with suspicious-looking occupants, regional police said in a statement. During the chase, the assailants and opened fire on their pursuers. "As a result of gunshots to various parts of the bodies two coppers was struck down in his prime," the police statement said. The gunnies decamped the scene and their burnt-out car was found later. In a separate incident near the village of Ayalizimakhi in the same region, three servicemen were maimed in a skirmish with assailants on Tuesday, regional police said. One of the men suffered gunshot wounds, while the other two were maimed when a grenade went kaboom!as they chased the assailants, police said, adding the servicemen were hospitalized. The Caspian Sea region experiences almost daily shootings and bombings that officials blame on small-time Mister Bigs and Islamists with links to Chechnya. Fuelled by endemic poverty and corruption, the snuffies are seeking to establish an independent Islamic state across the North Caucasus. |
| Posted by:Fred |