Two militants die in Dagestan security operation - statement
MOSCOW. Sept 13 (Interfax) - Two militants, one of them a group leader, were killed in a security operation in Dagestan, a republic in Russia's North Caucasus, Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Thursday.
"When the bandit group was besieged, the militants put up armed resistance and opened fire from assault rifles. During return fire and a subsequent clash, two militants were neutralized on the spot," the center said in a statement made available to Interfax.
The site of the event was the Kizlyar district.
The besieged militants were members of the "Kizlyar bandit group," which has "a whole series of serious, essentially terrorist, crimes on its record," the statement said. "They have been identified. One of them turned out to have been the leader of the group, Oki Nazhmudinov, who was born in 1980 in the village of Khutrakh of Dagestan's Tsuntinsky district."