22 Aug 2014 15:55

Four militants killed in Dagestan's Khasavyurt - NAC

MOSCOW. Aug 22 (Interfax) - Russian security forces have eliminated four militants in the suburb of the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) said on Friday.

"The bandits besieged in the house refused to give up or surrender to the authorities and tried to break through the siege. During the ensuing skirmishes the four members of an illegal armed group were neutralized," the statement said.

Two of them have been tentatively identified as active members of the Khasavyurt-based gang: Majored Gamzuyev, born 1988, and Abakar Bolatkhanov, born 1987. Firearms and ammunition have been recovered at the scene, the NAC said.