Russia: Nine dead in clashes in Caucasus

In a clash with Russian police in the night between Monday and Tuesday, nine rebels died in the Stavropol region in the Russian part of the Caucasus.

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 10.04.2012.

10:07

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In a clash with Russian police in the night between Monday and Tuesday, nine rebels died in the Stavropol region in the Russian part of the Caucasus. Intefax reports that clashes broke out during two separate operations carried out by the country's law enforcement officers. Russia: Nine dead in clashes in Caucasus A group of rebels opened fire on police who tried to stop their vehicle during checks near Nyeftekumska, a city close to the borders with Chechnya and Dagestan. In this operation, four insurgents were killed, while weapons, including a machine gun and a hand-made ​​bomb were found in their car. During the second operation in Minvodi, a famous spa about 300 kilometers from Grozny, police killed five militants. They took shelter in a residential building and died during a shootout with police, according to Interfax. More weapons were found there. After the first war in Chechnya (1994-1996) between the Russian federal forces and rebels, the uprising gradually began to acquire Islamic elements that spilled over the borders of the small Russian republic. In the past seven or eight years, it turned into an active armed Islamist movement present in the entire northern Caucasus. Tanjug

Russia: Nine dead in clashes in Caucasus

A group of rebels opened fire on police who tried to stop their vehicle during checks near Nyeftekumska, a city close to the borders with Chechnya and Dagestan.

In this operation, four insurgents were killed, while weapons, including a machine gun and a hand-made ​​bomb were found in their car.

During the second operation in Minvodi, a famous spa about 300 kilometers from Grozny, police killed five militants.

They took shelter in a residential building and died during a shootout with police, according to Interfax. More weapons were found there.

After the first war in Chechnya (1994-1996) between the Russian federal forces and rebels, the uprising gradually began to acquire Islamic elements that spilled over the borders of the small Russian republic.

In the past seven or eight years, it turned into an active armed Islamist movement present in the entire northern Caucasus.

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