20 Nov 2013 16:07

Two militants, their accessory killed in Dagestan - source

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Two people suspected of the participation in illegal armed groups and their suspected female accessory have been killed in the village of Novo-Sasitli, a source with Dagestani law enforcement agencies told Interfax.

A shootout started when law enforcement officers tried to check a house in the village, he said. "When police officers were trying to encircle the house gunfire opened up on them from it. According to preliminary data, two suspected members of illegal armed groups and their suspected female accessory were killed in the shootout. Firefighters are extinguishing a fire in the house right now. Investigators will then start to work on the scene,"