Monday, 19 December 2011Five people have been killed and three wounded during violence in Russia's North Caucasus region.
Interfax news agency reported that Russian soldiers shot dead four suspected rebel fighters in a mountainous area of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, some 1,400 kilometers south of the capital, Moscow.
In a separate incident, insurgents killed a senior police investigator in a road ambush in the Caspian Sea port of Kaspiisk.
A military spokeswoman said that in the neighboring Republic of Ingushetia, three Russian Army engineers were injured by a remote-controlled bomb.
Russian troops control major cities and towns in the Caucasus, but have been unable to put down armed resistance in the territory's rugged mountains and forests.
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Monday, 19 December 2011
RFE/RL
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