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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Three policemen killed in Dagestan
2012-09-15
Three policemen were killed during a security operation in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Saturday. Earlier, it had been reported that one officer was killed and two others wounded.

Local police reportedly came into contact with terrorists insurgents in the village of Khutrakh while conducting a search operation. The terrorists insurgents have blocked themselves inside a building on the outskirts of the village.

Russian army bombs school mistaken for terrorist base

An army unit that rained mortar rounds upon a Dagestani school was aiming for terrorists insurgents hiding elsewhere in the area. Several rounds exploded at a boarding school in the city of Buinaksk on early Thursday, injuring no one, but damaging the building.

At first, the incident was blamed on military exercises, but the Defense Ministry later said none were being held in the area at the time.

An investigation showed that the army was hunting Islamist terrorists rebels around Buinaksk on Thursday night. The squad commander gave the wrong directions to the mortar crew, which fired at the school instead of the terrorist militant hideout.

No terrorsts militants were reported killed in the vicinity of Buinaksk on Thursday, though the leader of the so-called “Kizlyar gang” was gunned down some 160 kilometers to the north of the city.
Posted by:ryuge

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