Two militants were killed by Dagestan and Chechnya policemen in a special operation conducted in Khasavyurt, Dagestan republic. The two gunmen barricaded themselves in a flat in a house at Rechnaya Street in the city. Tenants of a neighbouring flat were hurt in the exchange of fire between police and militants. A three-year-old boy died of a gunshot wound to the head and his mother was wounded in the leg. A Chechen police officer was also wounded.A duty officer of the Khasavyurt municipal department told Itar-Tass the 32-year-old Anvar Visayev who was shot dead by policemen was a member of illegal armed groups. He was a member of a bandit group of field commander Magomed Nauzov. Visayev has been on the federal wanted list since November 2003. He was charged with terrorism and banditry. The identity of the second killed gunman is being established. In the flat from which the militants opened fire at policemen the officers confiscated two Kalashnikov assault rifles and magazine cases with 37 cartridges. The owner of the flat where the militants found shelter is now checked for complicity in the crime. Criminal proceedings have been instituted under three articles of the Criminal Code (infringement on life of police officers, murder and illegal keeping of arms).